From the Boston Transcript.
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We published yesterday, an anecdote from the Christian Index, which we are assured by an octogenarian, is a corrupted version of the original. He insists the following is the real Simon Pure:

 In the olden times, whenit was the custom in many parts of New-England to sing the psalms and hymns by ''deaconing" them, as it was called, that was, by the ,leacon's read ing each line previous to it's being sung, one of these church dgnitaries rose, and after looking at his book some time, and making several attempts to spell the words, apologiz- ed for the difficulty he experienced in reading, by observing,

 "dy eyes indeed very blind." The choir, who had been impatiently waiting for whole line, thinking this to be the first of a common metre hymn, immediately sang it. The good deacon exclaimed, with em- phasis,

 sfI cannot see dt all This, of course, they also sung, when the as- tonshed pillar of the church cried out,

 q really blieve you bewitched!" !" Response by the choir, 'I really b'lieve you are bewitched." Deacon:

 "The deuce is in you all" The choir finished the verse by echoing the last line, and the deacon sat down in despair,