Litchfield enquirer., 1861-03-07
Nav they sed, and I 7,nU'd'

The Shakers axed mo to go to their meetin as they were to hay sarvices that mornin, so put on clean billed rag and went. The meetin house was as neat as pin. The floor was 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 millingtery com panes, the mails one one side of the room and the females on tether. They commenst clappin their hands and singin and dancin. They danced kinder slow at fust, but as they got warmed up they shaved it down very brisk, I tell you. FL der URIAH, in particular, exhibertid a right smart chance of spryness in his legs, considerin his time of life, and as he cum double shufie near where set, awarded him with approvin smile and sed: Good boy! Go it, my gay and festiv cussh
 You're man of sin ' he sed, continnerin his shuttle.
 The Sperret, as they called it, then moved a short fat Shaker to say few remarks. He sed they were Shakers and all was ekall They was the purest and seleckest peple on the yearth. Other people was sinful as they could be, but Shakers was all right. Shakers was all goin kerslap to the Promist Land, and nobody want gon to stand at the gate to bar 'em out, if they did they'd git run over.
 The Shakers then danced and sung agin, and after they was threw, one of em axed ne what thawt of it.
 'Sez l.; what dug it siggerfy?'
 'What?' says he.
 Why, this jumpin up and singin? This long Weskit bzness, and this anty -matrimony idee ? My friends, you are neat and tidy. Your lands is fowin with milk and honey. Your brooms is fine, and your apple sass is honest When a man buys kag of apple sass of you he don't find grate many shavns under 6 few layers of sass-a little Game I'm sorry to say sum of my New Englan ancestors used to practiss. Your garding seeds is fine, and if 1 should SOW 'em on the rock of Gibraltar probably should raise q good mess of sardlng sass. You are honest in your dealins. You air quiet and don't disturb nobody. For all this 1 give you credit. But your religion is small pertatcrs, l must say You nope away your lives here in single retchdness and as you air all by yourselves, nothing ever contlicks with your pecooler idees, except when Human Mater busts ont among you, as 1 under stan she sumtimes do giv URIAu a sly wink here which made the old feller squirm ike a speered Eel You wear long weskits and long faces and lead 8 gloomy life indeed. No chil- dren pratile IS ever hearn around your hearth stuns-you air in dreary fog all the time, and you treat the jolly sunshine of life as tho it was a thief, driven it from yeur doors by them wes- kits, and a.eal bags, and pecooler neshuns of yourn. The gals anloung yoil, sum of which ar as slick pieces of cailk&r as ever S0t eyes on air syin to place their heds agin wiskits which kyer honest manly harts, while you old heds fool yourselves with the idea that they air fu!fllin their mishun here, and air contentcd Here you ars all pend up by yerselves, talkin about the sins of world you don't nothin of. MeanWigle said world euntinners to resolve round her own axle-tree onct in every 24 hours. sableck to the Cons:itushun of the United States and is a very Tleas mt place of resi- dence. It's a ttnnatral, unreasonable and dis nlal life your leadin here. So it strikes me. My Shaker friends, now bid you welcome adoo. ! lou have treated me eXceedn we'll Thank you kindly, one and all.
 '-i base cxhibiter of depraved monkeys and onlr;ncir!ed wax work ' sed C&IAH.
 iio!io, tnIAH,i sez 1, 'ld most forgot you, 'f ali, lonk ont fer them fits Of yourn, and don | catch cold and die in the teur Of your youth snd beauty
 And resoomcd my journey lloity Fair.