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Updated: June 19, 2025
In yonder house lives one of my elders, a man of sterling piety and great consistency of character, who prays in his closet, in his family, and in public. He has seven or eight children, several of whom are grown up, and yet not one is hopefully converted, or even at all serious. Just beyond him, on the adjoining farm, lives a man of the same age, who married the elder's sister.
And if I wuz a Elder's wife, I should stay to home with him; I should think it wuz my duty and my privilege. And if I wuz a married woman, I would have enough baked up in the house all the time, so's not to be afraid of company." But I didn't answer back. I jest sot away my frames, and went out and stirred up a cake; I had one kind by me, besides cookies and jell tarts.
He took the cartridges from two young men brothers from the resemblance and from the fact that, falling together, one, the younger, had pillowed his head on the other's breast, while the elder's arm was around him. They lay like children in sleep. The next man was elderly, a lonely, rugged-looking person with a face slightly contorted and a great hole in his breast.
"As I stood there alone, a voice spoke to me as plainly as now I speak to you, and it said: 'Have done with railing. That which was the elder's shall be given to the younger. The tree hath grown crabbed and old, it beareth no longer. Behold the young sapling by thy door I have planted it there. The seed is the seed of the old tree.
Remorse in Richard's case, and stubborn anger in the Elder's they are emotions that take large toll out of a man's vitality. If ever Richard is found, he will not be the young man we knew." "Unless he is innocent. All this may have been an accident." "Then why is he staying in hiding?" "He may have felt there was no way to prove his innocence."
The rustlers glowered at Elder's party, but offered no comment other than some sneering laughter and ribald whispering. Yet Beaudry breathed freer when he was out in the open again lengthening the distance between him and them at every stride. Ryan walked as far as the hotel with Dave and his partner. "Come in and have dinner with us, Pat," invited the cattleman. The Irishman shook his head.
The simple ceremony was soon over, and as the Separatists denied themselves the privilege of a religious service lest some taint of Papistry might lurk therein, Elder Brewster closed his magisterial office with a prayer in which Isaac and Rebecca were not forgotten, and about which hung a curious flavor of the Church of England service so familiar to the elder's youth. "Priscilla! Mine at last!
Presently when the village was well afoot, and a big fire started between the elder's house and the brook for cooking purposes, the roll of the drum announced the morning prayers, with which the Pilgrims began every day, and more especially this Feast of Thanksgiving.
Saunders discharged him of his news, which dissipated the elder's calm as thunder shatters silence. "What?" he roared. "Yon scunner? Imph! I'd as lief ... as lief ... elect" the devil quivered back of his teeth, but as that savored of irreverence, he substituted "the Apoostate!"
When the chazzan bore the Torah round, none kissed it with greater zest; when the sheliach read the text, none listened to the interpreter with more absolute faith; and none took away with them more of the elder's sermon, or gave it more thought afterwards.
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