I positively shiver when I hear the undertaker say at a funeral , ` All who wish to see the remains please step this way . ' It always gives me the horrible impression that I am about to view the scene of a cannibal feast . '' `` Well , all I hope , '' said Miss Cornelia calmly , `` is that when I 'm dead nobody will call me ` our departed sister . ' I took a scunner at this sister-and-brothering business five years ago when there was a travelling evangelist holding meetings at the Glen . I had n't any use for him from the start . I felt in my bones that there was something wrong with him . And there was . Mind you , he was pretending to be a Presbyterian -- PresbyTARian , HE called it -- and all the time he was a Methodist . He brothered and sistered everybody . He had a large circle of relations , that man had . He clutched my hand fervently one night , and said imploringly , ` My DEAR sister Bryant , are you a Christian ? ' I just looked him over a bit , and then I said calmly , ` The only brother I ever had , MR. Fiske , was buried fifteen years ago , and I have n't adopted any since . As for being a Christian , I was that , I hope and believe , when you were crawling about the floor in petticoats . ' THAT squelched him , believe ME . Mind you , Anne dearie , I 'm not down on all evangelists . We 've had some real fine , earnest men , who did a lot of good and made the old sinners squirm . But this Fiske-man was n't one of them . I had a good laugh all to myself one evening . Fiske had asked all who were Christians to stand up . I did n't , believe me !
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