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The report of the pastor's collapse produced an emergency meeting of the leading sheep. The mid-day dinner-hour was chosen as the slackest. A babble of suggestions filled the _Parnass's_ parlour. Solomon Barzinsky kept sternly repeating his _Delenda est Carthago_: 'He must be expelled from the congregation.'
'He should be expelled from the town altogether,' said Mendel. 'As it is written: "And remove Satan from before and behind us."