"I'm sorry my nephew made a noise," said John to the sidesman.
And then very quietly he stole one mole-like look into his sidesman's face.
Mr. Ransome was sidesman at the Parish Church, and at no time was the Headache compatible with being sidesman.
Whether the John of 1646 was the same as the sidesman of 1605 or not, he was certainly buried in the parish.
A stickler was a sidesman to a fencer, so called because he carried a stick, wherewith to part the combatants.
