CHAPTER IX. 



The Iconoclasts of Danbury and of Boston. — Hat 

 Industry. — Storms on Sea and Land. — Ride 

 to Mohegan. — Ice-Cutting and '' Microbats " 

 by the Way, 



On the next morning there was a driving 

 snow-storm, but in this compact town it was 

 not difficult to get about the streets. Some 

 one pointed out the old church, which, as has 

 been narrated, the British spared from regard 

 to its religious denomination. They were 

 more generous than the posterity of its occu- 

 pants, who might have been supposed to have 

 had sufficient veneration for it to maintain it 

 in repair, and to perpetuate it for its original 

 purposes. Instead of doing so they have sold 

 it with less compunction and excuse than Esau 

 had in disposing of his birthright. They were 

 more hungry for show than he was for pottage, 

 and so, as the building was not adapted to 

 modern religious style, they sold it to be 



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