24/28 Why, when I was your age, young man, and after that too, I was glad to get $4 a week." "I don't think my salary is under discussion, Mr.Pierce--" "BROTHER Pierce!" suggested Winch, in a half-shuckling undertone. "The Quarterly Conference and the Estimating Committee deal with that. The trustees have no more to do with it than the man in the moon." "Come, come, Brother Ware," put in Erastus Winch, "we mustn't have no hard feelin's. Brotherly love is what we're all lookin' after. Brother Pierce's meanin' wasn't agin your drawin' your full salary, every cent of it, only--only there are certain little things connected with the parsonage here that we feel you ought to bear. |