text:  The blacksmith had hardly brought to a close a somewhat lengthy and very ungrammatical exhortation that wound up the day's proceedings when the dapper Jehu Tomkins jumping at once from the carnival to the revel shook me cordially by the hand and most kindly suggested to me that under the patronage of so important and religious a connexion as that into which I was about to enter I could not fail to succeed whatever might be the plan which I had laid down for my future support