But even when whole verses, or perhaps whole chapters, could have been put in entire (as would occur in the discourses related only by St. John), the Miss Collets did not save themselves trouble if the appearance of the page could be improved. Some of the most attractive sheets are those where each line has been cut out, and pasted in again in the original sequence, but with open spacing, so as to occupy the full page. In one case fifty-six lines have been treated thus, in another fifty-eight, in another fifty-one, where each passage might have been inserted entire. * * * * * Some instances may now be given to show the clever compilation of connected sentences out of the accounts of different Evangelists, _e.g._-- "And came into the coasts of Judea, beyond Jordan, into the place where John at first baptized, and there He abode, and great multitudes followed Him, and He healed them there, and as He was wont He taught them again" (_vide_ St. Matt. xix. 1; St. John x. 40; St. Mark x. 1), which reads as if it was one sentence, but is in reality four extracts from three Evangelists. Again--At the supper at Bethany-- "She annointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped His feet with her hair, and she brake the box, and poured it on His head, and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment" (_vide_ St. John xii. 3; St. Mark xiv. 3). Or this: "Ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her, whereon never man sat; loose them and bring them unto me" (_vide_ St. Matt. xxi. 2; St. Mark xi. 2). In both these extracts a little incident supplied by St. Mark is introduced into the main narrative of another Evangelist, who had not mentioned it. The following also is interesting, taken from the gospels of St. Matthew, St. Mark, and St. Luke-- "Is not this Joseph's son?" "Is not this the carpenter's son?" "Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary?" (_vide_ St. Luke iv. 23; St. Matt. xiii. 55; St. Mark vi. 3). It must not be thought that in the Concordance these extracts are printed straight off, as they read here. If that were the case, it would be open to objection that something like a new Gospel history was being compiled; but in every case, without exception, wherever words are introduced from another Evangelist, a space is left, a fresh line commenced, and the distinguishing letter placed in the margin. One short extract, printed as in the original, will make this quite clear.