Here the duty of the godfather or the godmother comes in; and if a child is an orphan, or has careless or irreligious parents, the Church holds the godparent responsible that these children be brought to the bishop to be confirmed.
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
Why, you old duck of a godparent!
"Kildares of Storm"
Eleanor Mercein Kelly
The godparent is then given a drink of the holy water, which is dipped from the bowl by the medicine man with a shell attached to a long reed.
"The Religious Life of the Zuñi Child Bureau of American Ethnology"
(Mrs.) Tilly E. (Matilda Coxe Evans) Stevenson