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FORTY YEARS AGO (1833) BY REV. ELIJAH H. PILCHER
Sometimes he will meet with good accommodations and good fare, and sometimes with very inconvenient and poor. On one occasion we stopped before services with a local preacher, who had a shrew for a wife, but who had been very friendly with me. She remained for the day's meeting after the sermon. In speaking to the members to relate their experience, I called the record and did not call her name next after that of her husband, as she was not a member. She arose and darted out of the house very suddenly. Not suspecting anything amiss, I returned to the house and spoke to her, when she made no reply and paid no further attention to me, while I remained, which was not long.
A MICHIGAN HOME.
At one of the appointments on the Rouge, resided a Brother B-----, whose
house was about two miles distant. He had been very urgent for me to go home with him and spend the night. I agreed to do so, provided he would be at the next appointment there to hear me. When the time came he was on hand, and go I must. We soon left the traveled road and entered the thick forest by a narrow path which terminated at his residence, which he reached a little before sundown. It was summer; the dwelling was a log cabin with only one room, constituting kitchen, dining-room, parlor, and bed rooms.
This one room had two beds in it, without curtains around either, of them. The mansion was surrounded by a rail fence, in such a condition that it allowed the pigs to have free access to the yard, and they also had free access to the parlor.
MICHIGAN
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