AMUSEMENTS. — ARCHITECTURE. 13 



most amateur associations. The Sherburne Lyceum, 

 however, is still in existence, and have a debate fort- 

 nightly during the winter season; and there is also 

 quite a popular organization known as the Momus 

 Club, which gives entertainments occasionally during 

 the winter, burnt cork being its specialty. 



All things considered, there is a good deal of local 

 talent in the way of music, elocution, and the drama, 

 and many creditable performances have taken place in 

 Athenaeum Hall. The Athenaeum and other literary 

 societies have from time to time given courses of lec- 

 tures. Strolling dramatic and variety performers 

 make their appearance here at intervals; balls and 

 parties are given, and fairs are held: but for what can 

 really be classed under the head of amusements in the 

 winter, the town depends almost entirely upon its local 

 amateur societies, be they literary, dramatic, or vari- 

 et} T , and their earnest efforts to please are usually re- 

 warded by good houses. 



Architecture. 

 Newspaper correspondents, and in fact visitors gen- 

 erally, describe the town as a quaint old place. The 

 town is old, as old things go in this country, and there 

 is a very strong smack of quaintness about those 

 houses which Eurdette so happily describes as being 

 shingled, shangled, shongled, and shungled. Gables, 

 sides, and roofs are shingled; and when as in years 

 gone by they were painted red, green, or yellow, and 

 the roofs tarred, as the fancy of the occupant dictated, 

 they were indeed odd-looking specimens of architec- 

 ture. 



