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Bancroft, and other congenial and descriptive minds, and surrounded with the gorgeous picters of that old time. I wuz back, I should presoom to say, as much, if not more, than four hundred years, when all to once I was recalled by my companion. "Dum it, I didn't know they charged folks for goin' to meetin'!" "Hush!" sez I; "this is not a meetin'-house, this is a palace; be calm!"
I presume " with crushing irony "dress in South Denboro counts but little." "You wouldn't say that if you ever went to sewin' circle," with a chuckle. "Still, compared to the folks at your meetin'-house this morning, our congregation would look like a flock of blackbirds alongside of a cage full of Birds of Paradise. But most of us the women folks especial dress as well as we can."
I never could see how women kin set an' rub an' rub the'r gums with it like they do. I reckon it's jest a sort o' habit." "I'm sorry," said Westerfelt, "but I don't know where my uncle keeps his tobacco." "Well, I reckon I'll strike some chawin' man down at the meetin'-house." Lithicum stood, awkwardly cutting the air with his whip. "Railly, thar is one thing more," he said, haltingly.
Though," sez Josiah, dreamily, "I don't know but I shall try that in Jonesville; I may on my return from my travels walk up to Elder Minkley and the bretheren in the meetin'-house, and pass the compliments with 'em and clasp my own hands and shake 'em quite a spell, not touchin' their hands. I may, but can't tell for certain; it would be real uneek to do it."
"Well, he's dead set on to buildin' a meetin'-house, and them fellows down at the Creek that does the prayin' and such don't seem to back him up!" "Whar's the kick, Bill?" "Oh, they don't want to go down into their clothes and put up for it." "How much?" "Why, he only asked 'em for seven hundred the hull outfit, and would give 'em two years, but they bucked wouldn't look at it."
"The pictur' in the firelight changes now," said Ezra, "an' seems as if I wuz in the old frame meetin'-house. The meetin'-house is on the hill, and meetin' begins at half-pas' ten. Our pew is well up in front seems as if I could see it now. It has a long red cushion on the seat, and in the hymn-book rack there is a Bible an' a couple of Psalmodies.
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.
"He says he'll be glad to ride over to work, every mornin' of his life, if he can only feel 't he's settled in Tiverton for good. An' there's that lot on high ground, right near the meetin'-house, as sightly a place as ever was, an' no good to you, there ain't half a load o' hay cut there in a season, an' he'd pay the full vally"
Grandpa Davis had continued to call, and now the answer was very near. "Gimme the first shot, Billy," whispered Grandpa Dun. "I let you do the callin'; and, besides, you know you never could hit nothin' that wasn't as big as the side of a meetin'-house." Before Grandpa Davis had time to reply, there came the "put-put-put" which signals possible danger.
'Jes' take me to de court-hous' ef you doubt Dinah's word compunctionable. I neber hab bin in dat place yit since I was sold in Georgy on de block befo' de high, wooden steps; but I knows it is more solemn to lie dar dan in Methody meetin'-house. "Den Mr.
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