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Updated: June 8, 2025
Whether or no the early loves of Adam and Martha had rendered it inexpedient that they should now preside together over a Shaker village, it was certainly most singular that such should be the final result of many warm and tender hopes.
Finally, the communal life secures order and system certainly at the expense of variety and amusement; but a man or woman born with what the Shakers would call a gift of order, finds, I imagine, a singular charm in the precision, method, regularity, and perfect system of a communal village. An eternal Sabbath seems to reign in a Shaker settlement, or at Economy, or Amana. There is no hurly-burly.
Already the spell of the day was wearing off. "I've learned, to my sorrow that you can't be too careful. Such a time as I had last month! I went out to a luncheon party May Stephens you know her? Well, just before luncheon I was astonished to see cocktails appear. I didn't think May had any stock, but there she was just the same, jiggling the shaker up and down.
Susanna had helped at various household tasks ever since her arrival at the Settlement, for there was no room for drones in the Shaker hive; but after a few weeks in the kitchen with Martha, the herb-garden had been assigned to her as her particular province, the Sisters thinking her better fitted for it than for the preserving and pickling of fruit, or the basket-weaving that needed special apprenticeship.
Arrived at the village, we encountered one little procession after another of broad-brim straws and Shaker bonnets turning out of the several houses as we drove past. They stepped along quickly, and seemed to take no notice of us. "Reckon we're the only visitors to-day," whispered Hiram as he stopped at the horseblock in front of the meeting-house.
When the travellers arrived in the Shaker village of Canterbury, Hawthorne at once made the acquaintance of the Community there, and the account which he sent home was to the effect that the brothers and sisters led a good and comfortable life, and he wrote: "If it were not for the ridiculous ceremonies, a man might do a worse thing than to join them."
"Good evening to you, young folks," was the salutation of the travellers; and "Good evening, friends," replied the youth and damsel. "Is that white building the Shaker meeting-house?" asked one of the strangers. "And are those the red roofs of the Shaker village?" "Friend, it is the Shaker village," answered Josiah, after some hesitation.
I had often driven over there with Aunt Sloman: indeed, Sophia that's the one you saw is a great friend of Aunt Maria's." "So the lady-abbess confessed, did she?" I asked with some curiosity. "Yes: she said you were rudely inquisitive; but she excused you as unfamiliar with Shaker ways." "And were you really at Watervliet?" "Yes, but don't be in a hurry: we'll come to that presently.
"He has retired." "Wall, my pretty dears," sez I, "let's have sum fun. Let's play puss in the corner. What say?" "Air you a Shaker, sir?" they axed. "Wall my pretty dears, I haven't arrayed my proud form in a long weskit yit, but if they was all like you perhaps I'd jine 'em. As it is, I'm a Shaker pro-temporary." They was full of fun. I seed that at fust, only they was a leetle skeery.
Jove was displeased and answered, "What, O shaker of the earth, are you talking about? A god less powerful than yourself might be alarmed at what they are doing, but your fame reaches as far as dawn itself.
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