The man tries to embrace the statue, but the statue disappears before he can get his arms around it and it reappears magically on the opposite side of the room.

air purification

Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6 1/2 tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. … It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.

The church might not be ambitious or indagative of such employment