Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-03-29
nv proud form in weskit yit; but if they


They was full of fun. seed that at
fust, only there was little skeery. l tawt
them puss in the corner and sich like plase,
and we had a nice time, keepin quiet OF
course so the old man shouldn't hear
When We broke up, sez l, my pretty dears,
ear go, you hav no objections, hav you,
to innersent kiss at partin 2
sYay,' they sed, aud yay'd.
went up stairs-to bed. 1 spose I'd been
snoozin half an hour, when [ was woke up
BY noise at the door. I sot up in bed,
leanin on my elbers and rubin my eyes,
and saw the follerin picter: The Elder stood
in the doorway with taller candle in bis
hand. He hadn't no wearing appeerel on
except his night close, which Auttered in
the breeze like Seceshun flag, He sed,
YOU'RE man Of sin p then groaned and
went away.
Invent to sleep again, and drempt of run
ming off with the pretty little Shakeresses,
mounted on my Californy Bar. I thaw'
the Bar insisted on steerin strate for my
doorway in Baldinsville, and that Betsy
Jane cum out and give US VAIN recep.
shun with painful of Bilin water. He sed
refreshments was reddy for me down stairs.
Then sayin I was man of sin, he went
groaniu away
AS was goin threw the entry to the
room where the victules was, cum across
the Elder and the old female I'd met the
night before, and what dye spose they was
up to2 Huggiu and kissiu like young low.
ers in their gushiugest state. See l, My
Shaker friuds, reckon you'd better sus
pend the rules aud get married!
you must exoos Brother Uriah, said the
female, she's subject to fits, and hain't got
no command over hisself when he's into
'em.'
sSartaiuly,' sez I, I've been took that
way myself frequent
You're man of sin = said the Elder.
Arter breakfast my little Shaker friends
cum in again to clear away the dishes.
My pretty dears,' sez 1, 'shall we gay
again p
Nay they sed, and I nayd.
The Shakers axed me to 60 to the meetin,
as they was to bav sarvices that mornin, 80 |
put on cleaned bile rag and went. The
meetin house was as neat as a pin. The
floor was as white as chalk and as smooth
as glass. The Shakers was all on hand, in
clean weskits and meal bags, ranged on the
floor like milingtery companies, the mails
on one side of the room and the femails on
the tother. They comenst clapin their
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 partickler, exiberted
right smart chance of spryness in his legs,
cousiderin his time of life, and as he cum a
double shuttle near where I sot, l rewarded
him with an approvin smile and sed: 'Hun.
ky boy! Go it, my gay and festiv Gus!
You're man of SIM he sed, continerin
in his shuttle
The Sperret, as they called it, then NOV
ed short fat Shaker to say a few remarks.
He sed they was Shakers and all was ekal.
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 goin ker slap to the Promis.
ed Land, and nobody warnt going to stand
at the gate to bar 'em out; if they did
They'd get run over.
The Shakers then dancedand sung again,
and arter they was threw, one of them axed
me what l thawt of it.
Sez I, What dez it signerfy.'
sWhat?' sez he.
why this jumpin' up and singin'?-
This long weSkit bizness, and this antimat
rimouy idee My friends, you air neat and
tidy. Your lands is 8owin' with milk and
honey Your brooms is fine, aud your apple
sass is honest. When man buys keg of
apple sass be don't find CRATE bunch of
shavins under few layers of sass-a little
game, I'm sorry to say, some of my New
Englan' ancestors used to praotiss. Your
gardiug seeds is fine, and eff should SOW
them on the rock of Gibraltar, probly, l
should raise good mess of gardiug sass.
You air honest in your dealns You air
quiet, and don't disturb nobody. For all
thiss give you credit. But your religion
is small pertaters, must say. You nope
away your lives here in single retchedness,
aud as you air all by yourselves, nothing
ever couficks with your pecooler ideas,
excep when human natur busts out among
you, as | understand she sometimes do. q
give Uriah sly wink here, which made
the old fellow squirm like a speared eel. y
You wear long weskits and long faces, and
lead gloomy life indeed. No children's
prattle is ever hearn around your hearth.
stuns-you are 10 drairy fog all the time,
aud you treat the jolly sunshine of life as
though it was thief, driven out from your
doors by them weskits, and meal bags, and
pecooar hoshuns of yourn. The gals a.
mong you, some of whom are slick pieces
of caliker as l ever sot eyes on, an sym to
place their heds agin weskits, which kiver
honest, manly harts, while you old he'd fool
yourselves with the idee that they air fulfil
in their mishun, and air contented. Here
you air, all pend up by yourselves, talkiu
about the sins of the world you don't know
nothin Of Meanwhile said world contin.
ers to resolve round on her own axeltree