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 iime 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 , 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; ernly, "e 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 m, 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 dle and    to bed. t go bed, alking.

        "Sunday, m 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 turn 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 i    place for sliding down you    possibly imagine.

        "O 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.

        "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 m.

        "time to il Saturday afternoon. 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 di ter di doo read t as still as mi 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 Gee, and James got up from tiptoed out of t Grandpa and Gee tiptoed after James. And Grandpa looked fearfully at t on tiptoe    ther sn.

        "took t up to top of t to slide do o 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 couldopped. 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.

        "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 tas, 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 tit samplers.”

        "No Ma put you to bed," said Pa, and ook    of its box.

        Laura and Mary lay in trundle bed and listeo t not sing the week-day songs on Sundays.

        "Rock of Ages, cleft for me Pa sang, hen he sang:

        "So t th bloody seas”

        Laura began to float atering noise, and tove, getting breakfast. It    e again for a whole week.

        t m     Laura and said    give her a spanking.

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

        "O; ed and spanked, slo one big spank to grotle led out of a stick, to be pany for Cte. Ma gave tle cakes, one for eac Laura te. Mary    sc.

        And t , 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 )

        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 fi time, either.

        c laugo bed and lay listening to Pa and the fiddle singing:

        "there was an old darkey, And his name was Uned,    And he died long ago, long ago.

        top of    to grow.

        "eeto eat to let the hoe-cake be.

        "So he good darkeys go.”
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