Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-08-03
Breaking the Sabbath.

''But what is it about your pa and ma
being turned out of the church?' said the
grocery man. 81 hear that they scandal
lized themselves horribly last Sunday"
"Well, you see, me and my chum put
up job on pa to make him think Sunday
was only Saturday, and ma she fell into
it. and | guess we are all going to get
fired from the church for working on Sun
day. You see they didn't go to meetin'
last Sunday because mas new bonnet
hadn't come, and Monday and Tuesday it
rained, and the rest of the week was so
muddy no one called, or they could not
get anywhere, so Monday | slid out
early and got the daily paper, and
on Tuesday my chum he got the paper off
the steps and put Mondays paper IN its
place. l watched when they were reading
it, but they did not notice the date. Then
Wednesday we put Tuesdays paper on
the steps, and pa said that it seemed more
than Tuesday, but ma she got the paper
of the day before and looked at the date
and said it seemed so to her, but she
guessed that they had lost day somehow.
Thursday we got Wednesdays paper on
the steps, and Friday we rung in Thurs
days paper, and Saturday my chum he
got Fridays paper on the steps, and ma
said she guessed she would wash tO-mOr-
row. and pa said he believed he would
hoe in the garden and get the weeds out
so it would look better to folks when they
went by Sunday to church. Well, Sun
day morning came and with it Saturdays
daily paper, and pa barely glanced it over
as he got on his oVeralls and went out in
his shirt sleeves a-hoeIng in the front gar
den. And and my chum helped ma carry
water to wash. She said it seemed like
the longest week she ever saw, but when
we brought the water and took plate of
pickles to the hired girl that was down
with the humps, we got i'll the lilac
bushes and waited tor the curtain to rise.
began going to church, and you'd
died laughing to see them all stop in
front of where ma was washing and look
at her, and then 20 on to where pa was
hOeing weeds and stop and look at him,
and then drive on. After about a dozen
teams had passed heard ma ask pa if he
knew who was dead, as there must be a
funeral somewhere. Pa had just hOed
into bumble-bees' nest, and said he did
not know of any that was dead, but knew
some that ought to be, and ma she did
not ask any foolish questions any more.
After about twenty teams had stopped,
ma she got nervous and asked
Deacon Smith if he saw anything
/ green: he said something about
/ Dissertation and drove away. Deacon
/ Brown asked pa if he did not think he
was setting a bad example before his boy,
| but pa said he thought it would be a
/ good one if the boy could only be hired to
/ do it. Finally ma got mad and took the
/ tub behind the house where they could
not see her. About O'Clock that after
noon we saw dozen of our cOngrega-
ton, headed by the minister, file into our
yard. and my chum and L knew it was
! time to fly, so we got on the back
steps where we could hear. Pa met
them at the door, expecting some
bad news, and when they were seated
ma she came in and remarked that
it was very unhealthy year, and it stood
people in hand to meet their lat
ter end. None of them said word until
| the elder put on his specs and said it was
a solemn occasion, and ma she turned
pale and wondered who it could be, and
pa says, don't keep us in suspense, who
| is dead? and the elder said no one was
dead, but they called as duty they owed
the cause to take action on them for work
ing on Sunday. Ma she tainted away and
they threw pitcher of water down her
back, and pa said he guessed they were a
pack of lunatics, but they all swore
it was Sunday and they saw ma wash
ing and pa hoeing as they went to church,
and they had called to take action on
them. Then there was a few minutes
conversation | could not catch, and then
we heard pa kick his chair over and say
it was more tricks of that darned boy
then we knew it was time to adjourn, and
| was just getting through the back fence
as pa reached me with a barrel stave, and
that's what makes me limp some."