Quaker Meeting, or "Quaker's Meeting", is a child's game which is initiated with a rhyme and becomes a sort of quiet game where the participants may not speak, laugh, or smile. The rhyme has many variations, but is similar to the following:
- Quaker meeting has begun.
- No more laughing, no more fun.
- If you show your teeth or tongue,
- you must pay a forfeit.
Another version is as follows:
- Quaker Meeting has begun,
- no laughing, talking shall be done.
- If you show your teeth or tongue ...
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“this old Quaker graveyard where the bones
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Bobbing by Ahab’s whaleboats in the East.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
“Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)