The Literary echo, and Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1851-1854, 1852-05-20
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don with her son, and Violet too, look
ing as sweet and pure as her own modest
Aowers-that Henry
who sits beside her has often culled and
brought to her in the bright spring
morning.
Esquire Gripe is not here for he can
not spare time to attend, nor has he any
taste for religious meetings. He gen.
orally spends his Sundays in looking
over his accounts and arranging his
business at home. Neither is his old
antagonist, Miss Charity Holdfast here.
She don't often 90 to meetings held by
other denominations than her own.
Skunk away there in the further corner
is little short, fat, fidgety elderly man
with long nose, prominent eyes, and
greasy hair, beard and clothes. That
gentleman is Mr.. Jedediah Catchall, and
he can here do what he dare not in some
other places. The great man (Gripe)
is not here, and he can come here and
think if he don't soy it, that his souls
his own, and body and will too, for al
of Gripe or any body that looks like
him.
There are others here also--young
men and old, women and children, fac
tory folks and farmers, the doctor,
deacon, and manufacturer from the
"upper village" sc. &c.
But Elder Trotter is at present the
|" observed of all Observers" so let us
speak of him. He is as you see, tall,
large-boned, lank- climbed man, with mar
velously crooked shoulders. He is
somewhat deaf, and also near-sighted as
you can see by the droll way that he
squints through his great brass-bowed
spectaclcs. The conformation of his
physiognomy reminds you of-you can
hardly tell what at frst-but when you
scan it more closely, You come to the
conclusion that there never cnnld be
such another looking person or thing in
the wide world for it to remind you of !;
and SO you very wisely conclude that it
you NEST forcibly of-iisdf,
which last it will most assuredly not fail
doing when you have once fairly con-
templatedit.
Elder Trotter has been from early
life a rover. He has nevertheless
done much good in the world, and be-
meath that rough exterior and backwoods-
man manner of his, is hidden one of the
most upright and benevolent hearts that
ever beat beneath the light of the sun
He has travelled as a colporteur in many
of the Western States indeed, the
greater part of his life has been spent
there, although he was born in New
England, and he has kept changing
about from place to place, sometimes
staying few weeks in this, and perhaps
a few months even in that or the other
one; and once in his life time-away in
st. Louis-he did really stay three
years or more. But as time has passed,
or he has finally bethought himself of
his native land, and once for all turned
his steps eastward, and now with his
worthy companion and six little Trot-
tcrs together with the help of his old
white horse, he has trotted home to his
native State, although he has not yet
reached his native town.
Elder Trotter having been aided into
his pulpit by Deacon Maydon, rose to
I" Butt says one, "scems to me your
style don't agree. You were just
describing present scenes, and now you
suddenly return to yeur has-beens. :"
Really 10 l have! Well, all, 1 have
to say about is, that those who follow
me through the devious windings Of
these sketches, must expect to turn
some pretty short corners aud meet
with some rough roads when led by such
an unsteady guide as myself; 20 you
can either go with me ard let me have