Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-03-08

night close, which huttered in the breeze like
Fourth of July flag He sed = You're 9
man OF sin !" then groaHed aud went away.
went to sleep agin. and drempt Of runnin
orf with the pretty little Shakeress, mounted
on my Calforny Bar. lhawt the Bar insist
ed On steerin strate for my dOoryard in Bald
insville, and that Betsey Jane cum out and
give US warm recepshun with a painful OF
Blin water. was woke up arly by the Ell
der He sed refreshments was ready for me
down stairs. Then sayin was man Of sin
be went groanin away
As went threw the entry to the room
where the vittles was, cum across the Elder
and the old female I'd met the night before
and what dye spose they was up to? Huggin
and kissia like young lovers in their gushinest
state. Sez 1, :. Ny Shaker friends, reckeu
you'd better suspend the rules, and git mar
ried !" - sl.-
You mast excoose Brother Uriah," sed
the female /; he's subjeck to fits, and han't
got no command over hisself when he's into
EN-" s.s
9 sartiniy," sez l, " I've bin took that way
myself frequent"
You're man of sin y sed the Elder.
Arter breakfast my little Shaker friends
cum in agin to clear away the dishes.
My. pretty dears," sez l, shall We gag
agin ="
-. f" Noy," they sed, and nay'd.
The Shakers axed me to go to their meetin,
as they was to hav sarvices that mornin, so
put on a clean billed rag and went. The
meetin house was as neat as pin. The floor
was white as chalk and smooth as glass. The
! Shakers was ali on hand, in clean weslits and
meal bags, ranged on the floor like millingtery
companies, the mails on one side Of the room
and the femals on tothrr. They commenst
clapring their hands and singin and dancin.-
They danced kinder slow at lust, but as they
got warmed up they shaved it down very
brisk, / tell you. Elder Uriah, in particier,
exhibertid right smart chance of spryness in
his legs, considcrin his time of life, and as be
cum double shuttle neer where sot, re-
warded him with approvin smile and sed :
:. Good boy! Go it, my gay and festiv cuss p
You're man Of sin :" he sed, contincrin
his shuflc --.
The Sperret, as they called it, then moved
! short fat Shaker TO say few remarks. He
se,l tlley was all Shakers and all was ekal.-
They WAS the purest and seleetcst people 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 goin to stand at the gate to
bar EN- out--if they did. they'd git run over.
The Shakers then danced and sung agiu,
and arter they was threw, one of en- axed me
what thawt of it.
Scz |, a What duz it siguerfy!"
! What ?" sez he. ........
Why this jumpin up and singin? This
/ long weskit bizness, and this anti-matrimony
id.e /? My trends, you air 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 many shavins under
few layers of sass-a little Game I'm sorry
to say sum of my New Englan ancestors uset
to practiss, Your garding seeds is fine, ans
if l should SOW 'em on the rock of Gibcraltel
prohly should raise good mess of garding
sass. You air honest in your dealins. Yot
air quiet and don't disturb nobody. For al
this | give you credit. But your religion i
small pertaters must say. You NOPE away
your lives here in single retcheslness, and a
you air all by yourselves nothing ever conaic
with your pecooler idees, except when Human
Mater busts out among you, as understand
she sometimes do. I Civ Uriah sly winl
here, which made the old feller squirm like 1
speared EEL
You wear long weskits and long faces, anC
lead a gloomy life indeed. No children
prattle is ever hearn around your harthstun
i-yOu air in dreaIy fog all the time, and yoI
treat the Jolly sunshine of life as tho it wa
a thief, drivin it from yOur doors by then
weskits, and meal bags, and pecooler noshuns
of yourn- The gals among you, sum of whicl
air as slick pieces of caliker as l ever sot eye
on, air sym to place their heds agin weskit
which kiver honest, manly lIarts, while yo'
old hCds fool yerselves with the idee that the.
air fulfillin their mishun here, and air content
ed. Here you air, all pend up by yerseveS
talkin about the sins of q world you don
know nothin Of Meanwhile sed world coDtiu
ners to resolve round on her axeltree onct il
every "A hours, subjeck to the Constitushu
Of the United States, and is q very pleasan
place of residence. It's unnatural, Onreasor
able and dismal life you're leadin here. So
strikes me. My Shaker trends, now bid yo
: welcome adoo. You have treated me e1
ceedin well. Thank you kindly, one and all.
:" A base, exhibitor of depraved monkey
, and ouprincipled wax works. sed Uriah.
Hello, Uriah," scz l, I'd most forge
you. Wall, look out for them fits Of your
and don't catch cold and die in the -four {
your youth and beauty"
; And 1 Iresoonled my jerncy.- Fuaity Fai