Chapter 5 SUNDAYS
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.”