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THE VERGER 1. The verger did not have a good impression about the new vicar as he was fussy and wanted to have his finger in every pie. The verger could not appreciate the new vicar from East end but felt that he would take sometimes to fall in with the discreet ways of the fashionable neighbourhood of St.Peter’s church. 2. The verger treated his gowns with much care, pride and dignity. He wore his gowns with complacence as it was the dignified symbol of his office, he took pains with it pressed it ironed it himself. He even preserved the old worn out gowns , wrapped them neatly up in brown paper and kept them in the bottom drawers of the wardrobe in his bedroom. 3. The verger was an illiterate person . So he made a lot of errors in grammar and pronounciation when he spoke . He spoke English in the manner of domestic and poor people in London , that is with a cockney accent. He dropped his ‘h’ and ‘b’s while speaking. The author emphasised it by giving he slang and accent of the illiterate lot of the city to the verger. Anyone who listens to it will get a clue about his under education

4. The verger joined service when he was twelve years old. The cook in the house tried to teach him alphabet. But he found it difficult. It was not so needed because the works that he had been doing did not require any

education. He was a page boy, butler and footman. The verger’s duty at St. Peter’s Neville Square could also be neatly carried out without being literate. His wife was a sv\cholar who could read or write for him. So he found it unnecessary to take the trouble of learning at this age. 5. The vicar wanted to talk to the Verger about his inability to read and write. He began the conversation by telling him that he had something unpleasant to say . The vicar admitted that the verger had accomplished the duties of the office to the satisfaction of everybody concerned. But he was astonished to find the verger to be an illiterate person. In that case the verger should not be allowed to continue his job in a prestigious church like St. Peters. Hence the vicar said that the verger must learn to read and write within three months or leave his office. The verger said that he is too old a dog to learn new tricks . He lived somany years without knowing it and it had not affected any job assigned to him PARAGRAPH 1. Albert started his career when he was very young. He had been in service in very good houses. Starting as a page- boy in the household of a merchant prince , he had risen by degrees from the position of fourth to the first footman , for a year he had been single-handed butler to a widowed peeress and till the vacancy occurred at St. peter’s he had been a butler with two

men under him in the house of a retired ambassador. He did not want to go back to domestic service because he had been his own master for so many years in the church. Going back to domestic service was like demeaning himself by accepting defeat. 2. The verger was happy to give the resignation because he knew that it was unable for him to learn reading and writing at a later point in life. He was not embarrassed when he was given two options either to learn how to read and write within three months or to quit his job. He reacted with confidence and bluntly expressed his inability to learn by saying that he was too old a dog to learn new tricks. He was worried about his life ahead. He had saved a tidy sum but it was not enough to live on without doing anything and the living expenses were escalating every year. He had a wife to support and he was quite worried about what to do after losing his job. Neither had Such a situation occurred to him before nor had he thought about it. So he was totally confused, 3. The verger after losing his job was struck by an idea to open a tobacco shop in a street where he was unable to find any shops selling cigaretts. He was a man of great business acumen and common sense . Being sacked from the job of the verger he decided to set up business as a tobacconist and newsagent. When his wife came to know about this she called it a dreadful come down from the prestigious position of the verger of St. Peter’s Neville square, to an ordinary tobacco seller. But Foreman told that people had to move with the times ,

even the church had changed and there is no Harm when the laymen too change ....