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of Mr Holmes, Lizzy, Mr Paull, Canf? and myself, I told them we could not sing the chants, but they were all, except Liz, very sanguine, and said, Oh! yes if Miss Bakewell comes to morrow we can, but I knew better, so I went early to church and told Mr Paddock to read the chants as we could not sing them. When I told them in the choir what I had done, they were quite offended, but I told Annie if she had come to rehearsal it would have been different, so we sang the Psalm and Hymn, but oh! the evening,!!! there was glory, there was fame!!!! Mr Paull, induced Mr Fleming to come, and Canf? insisted upon singing the chants, Annie seemed to wish it, and I gave in, to my sorrow, for such a time, you never saw. The Gloria in excelsis and first chant went well enough, but in, "Praise the Lord," someone behind me got the words wrong which sounded so funny, that I laughed out, and started Annie, you will scarcely believe it, but she shook and laughed until I thought she would drop, of course we could'nt sing and laugh both,