Penrod blinked and clinched his eyelids to be rid of this dual image, and he managed to shake off the volcano.

Then, lowering the angle of his glance, he saw something most remarkable--and curiously out of place.
An inverted white soup-plate was lying miraculously balanced upon the back of a pew a little distance in front of him, and upon the upturned bottom of the soup-plate was a brown cocoanut.

Mildly surprised, Penrod yawned, and, in the effort to straighten his eyes, came to life temporarily.

The cocoanut was revealed as Georgie Bassett's head, and the soup-plate as Georgie's white collar.

Georgie was sitting up straight, as he always did in church, and Penrod found this vertical rectitude unpleasant.