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.”