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.