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Updated: May 3, 2025
There were certain mysterious preliminaries, the rustling of singing-book leaves, the sliding of the short screen-curtains before the singers along by their clinking rings, and now and then a premonitory groan or squeak from bass-viol or violin, as if the instruments were clearing their throats; and finally the sudden uprising of that long row of heads in the "singing-seats."
At the second table she split her johnny-cake, and spread it open, saying it was a singing-book, and began to sing out of it, "Little drops of water, Little grains of sand." Grandma heard her from the next room, and came in very much surprised. "What shall I do with such a little girl as this?" said she, shaking her finger at Prudy.
On Sunday mornings, when Mary came out of her little room, in clean white dress, with her singing-book and psalm-book in her hands, her deep eyes solemn from recent prayer, he thought of that fair and mystical bride, the Lamb's wife, whose union with her Divine Redeemer in a future millennial age was a frequent and favorite subject of his musings; yet he knew not that this celestial bride, clothed in fine linen, clean and white, veiled in humility and meekness, bore in his mind those earthly features.
Our parlor, small and neat, was ornamented with our two profiles in one gilt frame, and with shells and pretty pebbles on the mantelpiece, selected from the sea's treasury of such things on Nahant Beach. On the desk, beneath the looking-glass, lay the Bible, which I had begun to read aloud at the book of Genesis, and the singing-book that Susan used for her evening psalm.
Dill was not the sort of man who loves fast riding and they ambled along quite decorously "like we was headed for prayer-meeting with a singing-book under each elbow," thought Billy, secretly resentful of the pace. "I reckon there'll be quite a crowd," he remarked wistfully. "I see a good many horses staked out already."
"It was full of beautiful truth!" said a sweet young girl's voice. "The most eloquent discourse I ever heard!" added a young man with a singing-book under his arm. "For my part," remarked a portly and well-dressed pillar of the church, "I was a good deal surprised. Rather too wild and flowery. Must have a bad tendency." "What we want is sound doctrine," observed another prosperous pillar.
He hurled a Bible, a catechism, or a singing-book at some hapless child twelve thousand times, and caused seven hundred to kneel on peas as a punishment. Then he punished eight hundred thousand for not learning their lessons and seventy-six thousand for not learning their Bible verses. So much for one teacher a half century before Lafayette's day!
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