Twelve Mormon Homes : Twelve Mormon homes visited in succession on a journey through Utah to Arizona.

Twelve Mormon Homes, page 041

Instead, I figured at two home-funerals as chief mourner! It was a relief to wake to the peacefulness of a Sunday morning, with bright sunshine streaming through the window. After breakfast I attended a Mormon meeting for the first time. I wondered whether Mr. Steerforth would walk to church alone, or between his wives. But they both accompanied me, while their joint husband (!) formed one of a group who escorted `I'. So there was no test of preference like that which mocks the tomb of Lord Burleigh."s We soon mingled with a stream of neatly-dressed people all going the same way; my children undevoutly rambling from one side of the road to the other. They called my attention to a tamed magpie, whose remarks the little Steerforths declared to be worth hearing. But we passed in vain; he would not show off. I had not known that the magpie was a native of Utah; I had supposed him a pecu- liarly English bird. We passed a he ap of smouldering brands-sticks and ragged . strips of cedar-bark. I had fancied that a fire of "cedarn-wood" would give out a scent like sandal-wood. The perfume resem- bled that of the fustiest of greasy woolen clothes, and was strong enough to poison the sweet air for quite a distance. I got rid of more than one preconceived idea that morning; of none more completely than the prevailing error respecting the 25Elizabeth Kane is undoubtedly referring to William Cecil (Ipo-1598) Lord Burghley-not Burleigh-who was Queen Elizabeth's chief secretary of state and prime minister for most of her reign. However, before coming into this potition, he had served the two preceding Tudor monarchs, Edward VI and Mary. His ability to serve faithfully both a Catholic monarch (Mary) and Elizabeth was a remarkable feat. Perhaps this is the matter Elizabeth Kane has in mind. Dictionary of National Biography, S.V. "Cecil, William."