FORTY-SEVENTH SUNDAY

457. Roulaient les grains d'un chapelet. — Were turning the beads of a chaplet.

The Catholics, in repeating their prayers, use a string of beads, and slide one bead along as each prayer is uttered. This is called " telling one's beads." The character in our story was repeating his prayer, and turning the beads between his fiugers, preparatory to reckoning with them.