Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-02-26

ou re q man OF sin, ~ said the Elder.
AFTER breakfast nv little shaker trends cum
in agin to clear away the dishes.
,sins!yy my pretty ds'r''" ''' l. "'hall we gag
Nay" they sed, and nay'd. -
The Shakers axed me to go to their meetin,
they was to have sarvice thet morniu, 30 put
on clean billed rag and went The meetin
house was as neat as pin The floor was as
white as chalk and smooth as glass The Sha-
kers was all on hand, in clean weskits and
meal bags, ranged on the floor like milingtery
| companies, the meils on one side of the room,
and the females on tother. They commenst
| clappin hands and singin and dancin. They
danced kinder slow at fust, but as they got
| warmed up they shaved it down very brisk,
tell you. Elder Uriah, in particler, exhibited
a right smart chance of spryness in his legs
eonsiderin his time Of life, and as he cum Q
bubble shuttle near where sot, rewarded
him with aapprovin smile, and sed: Good
boy! Go it, my gay and festive cuss.''
You're man Of SIM" he sed, continerin
his shuttle
The Sperrit, as they called it, then moved a
short fat Shaker to say few remarks. He sed
they was Shakers and all was eksl. They was
the purest and seleckest people on the yearth
Other people was sinful as they could be- but
Shakers was all right. Shakers was all eoin
kerslap to the Promist Land, and nobody want
goin to stand at the gate to bar 'em out-iI
they did, they'd git run over.
The Shakers then danced and sung agin
and arter they was threw one of 'em axed me
what thawt of it.
Sec l, "What duz it signerfy?"
"What" ser he.
"Why this jumpin up and singin? This
long weskit bizniss, and this anti-matrimony
idee! My trends, you air neat and tidy. Your
lands is fOwin with milk and honey. Your
6rooms is fine, and your apple sass is honest
when man buys kag of apple sass of you
he don't find CRATE many shavins under fey
layers of sass-a little Game I'm sorry to say
sum of my New Englan ancestors used to prac-
tiss. Your garding seeds is fine, and if l
should SOW EN- on the rock of Gibralter probly
should raise good mess of garding sass You
air honest in your dealiDs. You air quiet and
don't disturb nobody. For all this 1 givs Won
credit. But your religion is small pertaters, /
must say. You NOPE away your lives here in
single retchidness, and as you air all by your
selves nothing ever conflicks with your pecooler
idees, except when Human Mater busts cut
among you, as l understan she sumtimes do.
l Civ Uriah sly wink here, which made the
old feller squirm like speared Eel.
You wear long weskits and long faces, and
lead gloomy life indeed. No children e
prattle is ever hearn around your harthstuns-
you air in a dreary fog all the time, and you
treat the jolly sunshine of life as tho it was a
saiNA3 iAoA yOuI uOOIo lutm WeS-
kits, and meal bags, and pecooler noshuns of
yourn: The gals among you, sum of which air
as slick pieces of kaliker as ever sot eyes on,
air sym to place their heds sgin weskits which
kiyer honest, manly harts, while you old heds
fool yerselyes with the idee that they air full
fllin their mishun here, and air contented.
Here you air, all pend up by yerselves, talkin
about the sins of world you don't know
nothin of. Meanwhile said world continners
to resolve round on her own axeltree onct in
every "a hours, subjeck to the Constitushun of
the United States, and is a very pleasant place
of residence. It's unnatrel, onre ason able and
dismal life you're leadin here. So it strikes
me. My shaker friends, 1 now bid you well
come adoo. You have treated me exceedin
we'll. Thank you kindly, one and all.
81 base exhibitor of depraved monkeys
and onprincipled wax works.' sed Uriah
Hello, Uriah," sez L, "I'd most forgot
you. Wall, look out for them fits of yourn,
and don't cftch cold and die in the -four of
your youth and beauty"
And 1 resoomed my jerney-Fanity Fair.