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"The Pilgrim" 165
congregation is not so favorable. This does not faze the new minister who refuses to be stared out of his curtain calls.
Following the service Charlie is escorted by the deacon to the house where he is to live. Passing a bar the women lower their eyes and Charlie pantomimes his regrets he cannot enter. He is to stay at the home of Mrs. Brown and her pretty daughter whom he had already noticed at the station and again at the church organ. Charlie patiently endures the showing of the family album. Among other comic moments is the plight of the deacon when he smashes a bottle of homemade "hootch" in his pocket.
Visitors arrive, among them a garrulous lady, her subdued husband, their obnoxious child, and a crook who recognizes the Pilgrim as a former cellmate. The pugnacious brat is the very antithesis of the Kid. As they try to converse, the father and the Pilgrim are used as stepladders and punching bags by the brat who then tries to see what nuisances can be committed with flypaper and live goldfish.
A suggestion to the brat to go and play elsewhere gets the parents nowhere. Another suggestion to "go play with the gentleman" precipitates a mauling of Charlie who, restrained by his supposed position and the dignity of the occasion, endures it with super-Christian patience. But when the others troop to the dining room and Charlie is left alone with the brat clamped to his heels, his inhibitions are released and he sends the pest flying with a deftly delivered kick in the stomach.
In the kitchen the brat's next feat is to set his father's derby over the plum pudding in such a way that Charlie does not see it when he turns to cover the pudding with sauce and whipped cream. The father, declining an invitation to tea, searches for his hat. The lost headgear finally turns up when "the pastor" struggles to slice the