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.

  “did adam o ; laura asked ma. “no,“ ma said. “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.

  “i e sunday! “ she said.

  pa put do; ely, “come here.”

  dragged as s, because s ook  o mary, and said:

  “im going to tell you a story about when grandpa was a boy.”

  tory of grandpas sled and t; begin on sunday moing, as it does no began at sundourday nigopped every kind of work or play.

  “supper er supper, grandpas fater of t straigill in do up from took a candle and to bed. t go straigo bed, alking.

  “sunday, moing te a cold breakfast, because not cloto cche horses was work, and no work could be done on sunday.

  “t raig not joke or laughem.

  “in c sit perfectly still for to t fidget on t s. t tu to look at t sit perfectly motionless, and never for or one instant take the preacher.

  “ 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.

  “one it every minute of time. it sled t all t on it, one beo finis in time to slide doeoon. for every saturday afteoon to play.

  “but t ting dorees in t te-lig ill dark, and to do, and after supper to go to bed so t up early in the moing.

  “time to il saturday afteoon. t it just as fast as t t get it finisill just as t dourday night.

  “after t do slide do to until sunday was over.

  “all t still and t t e dinner t ter dinner t doo read t as still as mice on tec t the sled.

  “tly and ttering on t t day for sliding doec about t seemed t sunday would never end.

  “after a long time t t t asleep.

  “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.

  “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.

  “t ttle w.

  “t as toepped out of to tood there.

  “t it couldnt be stopped. t time to tu it. t rig doing in front, tanding in t t stop, t ime to say anyt, tting on james and squealing all the way.

  “at ttom of topped. to till squealing.

  “t to tly to t t saying a word.

  “t on reading, and tudied tec;but ook t to tanned ts, first james, then grandpa.

  “so you see, laura and mary,“ 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.”

  “did little girls o be as good as t?“ laura asked, and ma said: “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.”

  “no ma put you to bed,“ 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.

  “rock of ages, cleft for me pa sang, hen he sang:

  “so t to hrough bloody seas”

  laura began to float atering noise, and tove, getting breakfast. it come again for a whole week.

  t moing  laura and said give her a spanking.

  first today year unless sly and carefully t it did not a bit.

  “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 “pop goes t; for her.

  ;noc; ;atc time.“ then he sang:

  “a penny for a spool of ts t close, cime.

  “pop! (said pas finger on tring)

  goes the fiddle, plain as plain.)”

  but laura and mary seen pas finger make tring pop.

  “o again. t on while he sang:

  “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:

  “there was an old darkey, and his name was uncle ned, and he died long ago, long ago.

  top of to grow.

  “eeto eat to let the hoe-cake be.

  “so he good darkeys go.”