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"Haven't I hung around in front of the meetin'-house Summer nights, when the winders was open, jest to listen to the singin' and what else I could hear?

And the little cherubs holdin' the shell of holy water at the entrance you see are six feet high. You look fur down the meetin'-house as you look down the road into a big piece of woods, only here the distant trees turn into statutes and shrines and altars and things.

"Why, to meetin', of course." He hadn't been in a meetin'-house for two years, and we all knew it, and Miss Cork knew that we knew it hence the meach. "He don't go to meetin' here to Jonesville," sez Arville. It wuz real mean in her, but I spoze it wuz to pay Miss Cork off for her aggravatin'.

And he slammed off and wouldn't speak to me again. Don't talk to ME! I'll never go inside that meetin'-house again." And he never had until Mary-'Gusta coaxed him into it. She was a regular attendant at Sunday school, but on Sunday mornings in pleasant weather she had been accustomed to take a walk with Shadrach.

"I stood out in the road till I heard him go into the barn to harness. Then he went back into the house to change his clo'es. An' I walked into the barn an' unblanketed the horse an' slung away the bells an' druv the horse down to the meetin'-house, an' left him there in the sheds." Stella laughed with the delight of it.

They walked across the springing turf a few yards and were then able to make out the looming black mass of some building beyond the end of the air-ship. "Goodness!" Rebecca whispered. "This ain't Peltonville, Phoebe. There ain't a house in the town as high as that, 'less it's the meetin'-house, an' 'tain't the right shape fer that."

Trimble spoke of it many's the time, that first time he ever see me, in a leghorn hat with a feather; 't was one that mother had, an' pressed over." "When I think of them old sermons that used to be preached in that old meetin'-house of all, I'm glad it's altered over, so's not to remind folks," said Miss Rebecca Wright, after a suitable pause.

I well remember the Widow Moses said to me, in speaking of a certain misguided nephew of hers, "I never could see what could 'a' sot him out to leave so many privileges and go way off to Lynn, with all them children too. Why, they lived here no more than a cable's length from the meetin'-house!" There were two schooners owned in town, and 'Bijah Mauley and Jo Sands owned a trawl.

You'd see 'em on the corners and in the post office and camped on the meetin'-house steps, arguin' and jawin'. Dan and Gaius was hurryin' around, moppin' their foreheads and lookin' worried. On Thursday there was all sorts of rumors afloat. Finally they all simmered down to one, and that one was what made me stop Stingy Gabe on the street and ask for my bearin's. "'Mr.

Klutchem was right, Colonel," said Fitz. "Very sensible man. They will form a very large part of our freight. Anything offensive in that remark of Klutchem's, Major Yancey?" The major conferred with the judge, and said reluctantly that there was not. "Go on, Colonel," continued Fitz. "Then, suh, he said he wouldn't trade a yaller dog for enough of our bonds to papah a meetin'-house."