NO ter seemed long. Laura and Mary began to be tired of staying alime so slowly.
Every Sunday Mary and Laura in t cloturday night.
In ttled in er from t in tertime Pa filled and ub ove it melted to er. tove, be over two ched Mary.
Laura , because stler to go to bed early on Saturday nigte, because after s into go empty tub and fill it er Mary came to bed, Ma , and they were all clean, for Sunday.
On Sundays Mary and Laura must not run or s or be noisy in t se knit on tiny mittens s look quietly at t t not make anyt alloo se even h pins.
t sit quietly and listen o tories about lions and tigers and look at pictures, and t alk to t they could do.
Laura liked best to look at tures in ts paper covers. Best of all ure of Adam naming the animals.
Adam sat on a rock, and all ttle, ing to be told able. o be careful to keep hes on. he wore only a skin around his middle.
quot;Did Adam o ; Laura asked Ma. quot;No,quot; Ma said. quot;Poor Adam, all o ; Laura did not pity Adam. So skins.
One Sunday after supper s bear it any longer. So play es sing. Pa told o sit in , but h her heels.
quot;I e Sunday! quot; she said.
Pa put do; ernly, quot;come here.”
dragged as s, because s ook o Mary, and said:
quot;Im going to tell you a story about when Grandpa was a boy.”
tory of Grandpas Sled and t; begin on Sunday morning, as it does no began at sundourday nigopped every kind of work or play.
quot;Supper er supper, Grandpas fater of t straigill in do up from took a candle and to bed. t go straigo bed, alking.
quot;Sunday, morning te a cold breakfast, because not cloto cche horses was work, and no work could be done on Sunday.
quot;t raig not joke or laughem.
quot;In c sit perfectly still for to t fidget on t s. t turn to look at t sit perfectly motionless, and never for or one instant take the preacher.
quot; talk on t t not talk loudly and t never laug e a cold dinner
sit in a roecil at last t down and Sunday was over.
Noop of to t door, and in er it place for sliding down you can possibly imagine.
quot;One it every minute of time. It sled t all t on it, one beo finis in time to slide doernoon. For every Saturday afternoon to play.
quot;But t ting dorees in t tern-lig ill dark, and to do, and after supper to go to bed so t up early in the morning.
quot;time to il Saturday afternoon. t it just as fast as t t get it finisill just as t dourday night.
quot;After t do slide do to until Sunday was over.
quot;All t still and t t e dinner t ter dinner t doo read t as still as mice on tec t the sled.
quot;tly and ttering on t t day for sliding doec about t seemed t Sunday would never end.
quot;After a long time t t t asleep.
quot;t George, and James got up from tiptoed out of t Grandpa and George tiptoed after James. And Grandpa looked fearfully at t on tiptoe ther snoring.
quot;took t up to top of t to slide do once. t to techer woke up.
James sat in front on ttlest. tarted, at first sloer and faster. It eep t s. t slide silently past t her.
quot;t ttle w.
quot;t as toepped out of to tood there.
quot;t it couldnt be stopped. t time to turn it. t rig doing in front, tanding in t t stop, t ime to say anyt, tting on James and squealing all the way.
quot;At ttom of topped. to till squealing.
quot;t to tly to t t saying a word.
quot;t on reading, and tudied tec;But ook t to tanned ts, first James, then Grandpa.
quot;So you see, Laura and Mary,quot; Pa said, you may find it o be good, but you s it isnt as o be good no was when Grandpa was a boy.”
quot;Did little girls o be as good as t?quot; Laura asked, and Ma said: quot;It le girls. Because to betle ladies all time, not only on Sundays. Little girls could never slide dole girls o sit in titch on samplers.”
quot;No Ma put you to bed,quot; said Pa, and ook of its box.
Laura and Mary lay in trundle bed and listened to t not sing the week-day songs on Sundays.
quot;Rock of Ages, cleft for me Pa sang, hen he sang:
quot;So t to hrough bloody seas”
Laura began to float atering noise, and tove, getting breakfast. It come again for a whole week.
t morning Laura and said give her a spanking.
First today year unless sly and carefully t it did not a bit.
quot;One -t; ed and spanked, slo one big spank to grotle led out of a stick, to be company for Cte. Ma gave tle cakes, one for eac Laura te. Mary sc.
And t nigreat, Pa played quot;Pop Goes t; for her.
;Noc; ;atc time.quot; then he sang:
quot;A penny for a spool of ts t close, cime.
quot;Pop! (said Pas finger on tring)
Goes the fiddle, plain as plain.)”
But Laura and Mary seen Pas finger make tring pop.
quot;O again. t on while he sang:
quot;All around the cobblers bench,
the weasel!”
t seen Pas finger t time, either.
c laugo bed and lay listening to Pa and the fiddle singing:
quot;there was an old darkey, And his name was Uncle Ned, And he died long ago, long ago.
top of to grow.
quot;eeto eat to let the hoe-cake be.
quot;So he good darkeys go.”