Sharps and flats Author:Eugene Field Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: WITH THE "SAINTS AND SINNERS" Announcement of Sale of Pews There will be a sale of pews in the Saints' and Sinners' corner at McClurg's immediately after t... more »he regular noontime service next Wednesday. The Archbishop of the North Side will conduct the sale, and successful bidders will be entitled to the use of the pews and of the catalogues and other worldly and spiritual perquisites thereunto and therewith belonging and accruing for the Christian year. There will also be raffled off at the same time one unique, uncut papier-mache trunk, 28x15, London, N. D., well bound with antique iron and unknown to Lowndes. Said trunk has been the property of the Rev. F. M. Bristol, and has, inits time, comprehended divers most precious articles of bibliomaniac lore. It has stood for several months in the southwest corner of McClurg's store, over against the steam- heater, and hard by the old-print table. Last Thursday morning Mr. Bristol entered the store in a fever of anticipation, hastened to the trunk, and threw back the cover, only to find that no coveted relic had been left by the Christmas saint. " I don't believe there is any such person as Santa Glaus!" cried Mr. Bristol, and forthwith he delivered over the trunk into the hands of the Philistines, to be sold at a public vendue. December 27, 1890 First Annual Sale of Pews As early as nine o'clock yesterday morning did those hopelessly misguided creatures known as bibliomaniacs begin to assemble at McClurg's. People passing to and fro wondered wherefore the congregation. To such as made inquiry the small boy with the big shock of hair at the south portal vouchsafed the information that pews were to be sold in the Saints' and Sinners' corner, and that it was with a view of purchasing that the number of motley maniacs ha...« less