[Half a Century by Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm]@TWC D-Link bookHalf a Century CHAPTER II 3/10
We stopped in the woods; my feet were denuded of their commonplace attire and arrayed in white hose, beautifully clocked, and those precious slices, and my poor conscience tortured about my vanity.
The girls also exchanged theirs for morocco slippers.
We concealed our walking shoes under a mossy log and proceeded to the meeting-house. It was built in the form of a T, of hewn logs, and the whole structure, both inside and out, was a combination of those soft grays and browns with which nature colors wood, and in its close setting of primeval forest, made a harmonious picture.
Atone side lay a graveyard; birds sang in the surrounding trees, some of which reached out their giant arms and touched the log walls.
Swallows had built nests under the eaves outside, and some on the rough projections inside, and joined their twitter to the songs of other birds and the rich organ accompaniment of wind and trees. There were two sermons, and in the intermission, a church sociable, in fact if not in name.
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