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No Such Thing As A Fish

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Sluggerd Wakers - Who's Got Ultimate Authority Over This?

The only skill of the job is spotting the sleeping people. If this priest has to keep telling you, then you're being fired. Betty Finch was a sluggerd waker in Warrington and known locally as the bobber. She had a fishing rod and she used to swing it round and wake people up with the rod. That's very deaf. And if you did it repeatedly, she got a hook into your cheek and just reeled you on. One of them seemed to be dog whipping,. which was an important thing to do because in church services in times ofYour, and we're talking about a long period of times, sluggerd Wakers existed, I think.

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