Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-07-28
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 scandalized themselves
horribly last Sunday
swell, 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 Sunday. Yousee they didn't go to
hnat last su1dSy
and the rest of the week was SO muddy no one
called, or they could not get anywhere. SO Mon
day slid out early and got the daily paper.
and on Tuesday my chnm 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 Thursdays paper,
and Saturday my chum he got Fridays paper on
the steps, and ma said she guessed she would
wash tomorrow, 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, Sunday morning
came, and with 1T Saturdays daily paper, and
pa barely glanced 1t over as he got on his over
alls and went out in his shirt sleeves a hoeing
in the front garden. And l and my chum
helped ma carry water to wash. She said 1t
seemed like the longest week she ever saw,
but when we brought the water and took a
plate OF pickles to the hired girl that was
down with the mumps, we got In the lilac
| bushes and waited for the curtain to rise. 1t
| wasn't long before folks began going to church,
| and you'd dde laughing to see them all stop in
| front of where ma was washing and look at her,
| and then 60 on to where pa was hOeing weeds
and stop and look at him. and then drive on.
After about dozen teams had passed l heard
n11r, -l,,1 I0n fhnro
must be 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
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 II he did
his boy, but pa said he thought it would be a
! good one II the boy could only be hired to do 1t.
| Finally ma got mad and took the tub behind
the house where they could not see her. About
four o'clock that afternoon we saw dozen Of
| our congregation. headed by the minister, file
into our yard, aud my chum and knew 1t 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 it
was very unhealthy year and it stood people
| in hand to meet their latter end. None Of them
said word until the elder put on his specs
and said it was b 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 q duty they owed the cause to take
action on them for working on Sunday. Ma
she tainted away and they threw a pitcher of
water down her back. and pa said he guessed
they were pack of lunatics, but they all swOre
it was Sunday and they saw ma washing and
pa out hoeing as they went to church, and they
had called to take action on them. Then there
was few minutes conversation 1 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 barrel stave, and that's what
makes me limp some"