Excerpt from People, Places and Things E have had a great number of Curates in our parish, and from my position as churchwarden, I am tolerably well fitted to speak upon the subject. Under Preferments and Appointments, in the church newspapers, you may have seen, about once in every six months or so, the Rev. Some body Something to the curacy of Little Biddlebrigham, Devon, and have been under the mistaken impression that the young man had got a good thing; but this is far from being the case. 'a title given and a sole charge are the baits with which we allure juvenile divines into our parish, and we have found them very killing - the baits, I mean, not the divines but since we are upon that subject, I may state at once that the word might have been not seldom applied to our Curates themselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.