Sie fanden statt, wenn der Geistliche einmal gar nichts anders zu tun hatte, in der Sakristei, im Stehen, in aller Hast in den Pausen zwischen den Taufen und Begräbnissen.
They were given at spare moments in the sacristy, standing up, hurriedly, between a baptism and a burial; or else the cure, if he had not to go out, sent for his pupil after the Angelus*.