64 With Feet to the Earth 



as a bullet" Surrounded by his family, 

 ftis friends, his pets, his porcelains, his 

 pictures, and his memories, with breezes 

 bearing perfume and bird-songs in at his 

 windows, this man who has swayed a 

 people to tears and laughter owned to 

 being happy. 



In a jog through the Berkshires, splen- 

 dent in October, I turned a little aside 

 from my path to see the Shakers, and was 

 heartily won to them. Such plain, right- 

 eous folk it is a comfort to meet, " monks 

 and nuns without bolts and bars," as the 

 godly Elder Evans described them, and, 

 he might have added, without coldness or 

 acerbity. Though the men and women 

 live apart, they are brothers and sisters 

 and their interests are common. It was 

 Sunday when I entered Mount Lebanon 

 and heard the joyous chant and dance as I 

 passed the meeting-house. It was too late 

 to attend service, so I walked on to the 

 house of the North family, and was pres- 

 ently in talk with Elder Frederick Evans 

 and "Brother" Daniel Eraser, the latter a 

 cheery, ruddy man of nearly ninety, who 



