The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-03-21

L meG previously, dAU tuCh SAAhy,
silky har was hid from sight sight by long
white caps, sich as I spose female
Josts wear; but their eyes sparkled
like diaminds. their cheeks was like
roses, and they was charmin enuf to
make man throw stuns at his gran
mother, if they axed him to. They
commenst clearin away the dishes,
casting shy glances at me all the
time I got excited. I forgot Betsy
Jane; in rapter, sez l, ''My pretty
dears, how air you?"
eve air we'll, they solumly sed.
Whar's the old man % sed I, in
soft voice. @
"Of what dost thow speak, bro
ther Uriah ?''
"I mean the gay and festive cuss
who calls me man of sin. Shouldn't
wonder if his name was Uriah.' -
"He has retired
"Wall, my pretty dears,'' seq I,
"let's have sum fun. Let's play puss
in the corner. What say o.
(Lhea' (b1rs 20" :" Shaker SIR = they
Wall, my pretty dears, I haven't
Eea my proud form in weskit
hi if they was all like you, pre-
line 'em. AS it is, I am n
Temporary.
x {<S full of fun I seed that
y they was 4eetle shakry.
3 pns ,nassd ssss&he ei eskner and sich
%at Ao " 5dd a Aice time,
hoa of Nrse, so the old
sez I:SFs MsalN When wa broke
g you hav no o6kty dears, ear I
Yay, they @ sed. " sna 81"
went up stairs 70 ana ho, g&sd.
Fole 1uo11n un hn half an hour. wbapn bspo7sSM IA
y in bed, II 1ean; n91a6 ii tta.fe a'e dd6f. sot O,
Rin my e. Ia on my elbers and
F: ~ Yes, and saw the follerin
The Elder stood in the door
With taller candle i'll his hand.
ne hadn't no wearin appeeril OIL ex-
cept his night-close, which hutlered
in the breeze like a seceshun flag. He
sed, " You're a man of sin p then
| groaned and went away.
I went to sleep agin, and dremp5 of
running off with the pretty little Sha-
keress mounted on my Californy bar
I thawt the bar insisted on steerin
strate.for MY doorway in Baldinsville,
and that Besy Jane, cum out and Civ
us q warm recepsh with painful OF
bilin water,~ I Mas woke up arly by
the Elder. He seUrefreshments was
reddy for me down stairs. Then sayin
I was man of sin. he went groanin
away.
AS was goin threw the entry to
the room where the vittles was, ]
cum across the Elder and the old fe-
male I'd met the night before, and
what dye, suppose they was up to?
Huggin and kissin like young lovers
in their gushingest state. Sez I,
"My Shaker friends, I reckon you'd
better suspend the rules, and get
marridr'
sYou must excus Brother Uriah, ;"
said the female; "he's subject to fits,
aud hain't got no command over his
self when he's into 'em."
''Sartainly," sez I, Give been took
that way myself frequent. :"
"You're d man of sin!'' said the
Elder.
Arter breakfast, my little Shaker
friends cum in again to clear away the
dishes
"My pretty dears," sez I, ''shall
we gag again?"
''Nay," they sed, and I uay'd.
The Shakers axed me to go to their
meetin, as they was to hav sarvices
that,mornin; so 1 put on clean billed
-1ng and went. The meetin house was
Aas neat as pin. The floor was
white as chalk and smooth as glass.
The Shakers was all on hand, in clean
Alweskits and meal bags, ranged on the
2oor like milingtery companies, the
on one side of the room and
females on the tother. They
enst clappin their hands and
and aancin. They danced
nder fust, but as they got
warmed ~ gshaved it down very
brisk, I ten you. Elder Uriah, in
g9fticlar, exibe,ted a4right smart
[Ehahce Of sprynsss N h1 legs, con-
{siderin his timyb bf life, and as he
cum double shua le near where sot,
Ire l rewa5ded var him yh approvin smile