Excerpt from Strange Survivals: Some Chapters in the History of Man

When the writer was a parson in Yorkshire, he h?d in his parish a blacksmith blessed, or afflicted - which shall we say? - with seven daughters and not a son. Now the parish was a newly constituted one, and it had a temporary licensed service room; but during the week before the newly erected church was to be consecrated, the blacksmith's wife presented her husband with a boy - his first boy. Then the blacksmith came to the parson, and the following conversation ensued: -

Blacksmith: "Please, sir, I've gotten a little lad at last, and I want to have him baptised on Sunday."

Parson: "Why, Joseph, put it off till Thursday, when the new church will be consecrated; then your little man will be the first child christened in the new font in the new church."

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