THE END OF THE WORLD
... AN ANECDOTES OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. In 1582, the Cure of the little village of-, finding his re- venue too scanty, endeavoured to profit by the superstition of his parishioners, to increase his wealth. None of the methods he had essayed had succeeded, when chance and his own pre- sence of mind came to his aid. One Sunday at the moment when the inhabitants of - were listening with the ...