The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1865-10-11

"Thats unnecessary, marin. You aint
in no dagger Don't fret yourself on that
pint
''lIere we are shot out from the sinful
world. Here all is peas. Here we air
brothers and sisters. We don't marry
and consistently we have no domestic
difficulties. Husbands don't aboos their
wives-wives don't worrit their husbands
There is no children here to worrt us.
Nothin TO worrit us here. No wicked
matrimony here. Wouldst thow like to
be a shakcr!"
"No," scz I, sit amt my style
| had histed in about as big II load of
provishuns as | could carry comfortably,
and learin back in my cheer, commenst
pickin my teeth with fork The fe-
male went out, and left me all alone with
the clock. | had not sot thar long before
the Elder poked his head in at the door.
"fou're a man Of sin !" he sed and
groaucd and went away.
Direckly thar cum in two young Sha-
kcresses as putty and slick lOokn cal rs
| ever met. 1t il troo thay was drest in
meal bags, like the old one | had previ-
on~ly met, AMI their shiny, silky hair
was hid from sight by long white caps.
such as suppose female Josts wear; but
their eyes sparkled like diminl-, their
cheeks was like roses, and thay was char
min enuif to make "A man throw stuns at
his grandmother, if they axed him to-
They commenst cearn away the dishes
castin shy eIanccs at me all the time
got excited forgot Betsy Jane in my
raptcr, and sez |,
My pretty dears how is you ?"
Owe air well, they solemly sed.
"Whar's the old man" scd in "A soft
voice.
"Of whom dost thow speak-Brother
Uriah ~
81 mean that gay and festive cuss who
calls me man Of sin Shouldn't won
der if his name was Uriah,"
''lle has RETIRED
"Wall, my pretty dears," seq I. 'let
us h"v sum m, fun. Let's play puss in the
Air you Il shaker, sir - they axed.
"Wall, my dcars, havnt arrayed my
proud form in Il long weskit yit, but if
they wa all like YOU perhaps I'd iinc
'cm. As it is, | am Shaker protem-
porary."
They was full OF fun. I seed that at
fust, only they was little skecry. r
tawt 'em puss in the corner and sich like
plaSe, and we he'd Il nice time. keepln'
quiet Of course, 50 the old man shouldn't
hear.
When we broke up, seq |, "AIy pretty
dears, ear | go you hav no objections hav
you to an inner>cnt kiss at partin ;"
"lay," they sed, and wyd
| went up stars to bed. | spose I'd
been snoozin half an hour when | woke
up by a noise at the door, set up in
bed, leanin on my ELDERS and rubbin my
eyes, and | saw the follern pictur: he
elder stood in the doorway with taller
candle IN his hand. He hadn't no wear
in apparel on except his night close,
which huttered in the breeze like Sc
sushun flag. He sed, "You're man of
sin |" then groaned and went away.
went to sleep agin and drempt of
runnin OFF with the pretty little shaker
esses, mounted on my Californy Bar.
thawt the Bar insisted on steerin strate
for my dooryard in Baldinsvill and that
Betsy Jane cum ont and gave us warm
recepshun with painful of biln water
was woke up arly by the Elder. lie
sed refreshments was ready fur me down
stairs, Then sayin was man of sin
he went groanin away,
As | was goin threw the entry to the
room where the vittels was. | cum across
the elder and the old female I'd met the
mite before, and what dye spose they was
up to ? Huggin and kissin like young
lovers in their gnshingist state. SEE !,
''my Shaker friend | recon you'd better.
suspend the rules and git married !"
"Gou must excoose Brother Unah."
sed the female, she's subject to fits and
haint got command over hisself when hes
into EN-"
"Sartainly," seq l. "rve been took
that way frequent"
"You're man of SIM" said the elder.
Arter breakfast my littel Shaker friend
cum in again to clear away the dishes.
"My pretty dears," sez |, ''shall we
yay again ?"
"Nay," they sed, and | nay'd
The Shakers axed me to go to their
meetin as tha was to hav service that
mornin, so put on a clean billed rag and
went. The meetin house was as neat as
pin. The floor was as white as chalk
and as smooth as glass.
The Shakers were all on hand, in clean
weskits and meal bags, ranged on the
floor like the milngtary companies, the
mails on one side of the room, and the
temails on the tother.
Thay commeust clappin their hands
and snsin and dancin. They danced
kinder slow at fust, but as they got
warmed up, they shaved it down very
brisk, tell ye. Elder Uriah, in parlic-
nlar exhibited spryness in his legs, con-
siderin his time of life, and as he cum
double shuttle near whar sol, reward
ed him with a smile and sed:
"Hunky boy. Go it, my gay and fes-
tive old cuss !"
"You're man Of SIM" he sed, con-
tinerin his shuttle.
The Sperrit, as they called it, then