"When I go to church," she said, "I go to a white folks' church, and try to see what I can of white folks' Christianity, though I must say that Christianity of the other color is often just as good, as far as works go.

But it is natural that a stranger should want to see what kind of services the colored people have, so you two might as well get into the spring-wagon and go along." "But shall we not deprive you of the vehicle ?" said Lawrence.
"I never go to church in the spring-wagon," said the old lady, "so long as I am able to walk.

And, besides, this is not our Sunday for preaching." It seemed to Lawrence that an elderly person who went about in a purple calico sun-bonnet, and with an umbrella of the same material, might go to church in a wheelbarrow, so far as appearances were concerned, but he had long ceased to wonder at Mrs Keswick's idiosyncrasies.

"I remember very well," said Miss Annie, after the old lady had left the table, which she always did as soon as she had finished a meal, "when Aunt Keswick used to go to church in a big family carriage, which is now sleeping itself to pieces out there in the barn.

But then she had a pair of big gray horses, one of them named Doctor and the other Colonel.