Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-03-15
Ny NAUGHTIEST DAY.
HELEN wATTERSoN.

Il, st day Of my life l have never been
unite sure Prob Iblv, however, it be-
gan with morning prayers.
10 tell the truth, Eddy and were
not fond Of morning prayers.
That morning the reading lesson VAS
Iu the fourth chapter OF the Ephesians.
: glanced aver to make sure that Eddy
~uT nv devotion To nv amazement
he looked sqUeraly in my face and gave
"a -hy but deIIb, rate wink with his left
eve.
Now, in our siGual code wink with
the right eve meant danger u wink
With the left meant ''fnn ahead"
/ gave h'm what 1 INTENDED as a
gJal OF intense reproof, but he GER
tuI- " ook 1t for one of curiosity, for
again he wirked his left eye four times,
wi lie his faca took On an unmIstakable
look Of mischief.
Then grandpa's solemn Let us
pray" fell on our ears and we kuelt
precip lately at our little sI.lrnt boz tom
chairs 20 fuger the splints and pull out
ryug tOugh slivers from their edges
until graudpa's loud .'Amen" set us
free.
With a common impulse to ct away
iIom the 5upcrnutural and ont into the
beautiful, human world that We under
TODD and !, we'd and were not afra d Of,
We rushe toward the door 1t was
high June.
Eddie drew me of Iuto the tool house.
his was our Council chamber and
fayOrite place for playing under smell
ter
What is It?" | asked in an urgent
wbisper-a whisper always being more
compatible with mystery, even though
40 soul were nigh to listen.
Did yOu hear what grandpa real
tins morning." asked Eddy IN a second
rhisper.
"Of course | did, L answered.
'About the sum-" pursued Eddy.
About whose sou?" | asked.
"Oh, ninny he Hroke out impa-
tlently. About the sun up in the sky,
and not lettir Z 1t go down -"
ION your wrath" l finished calmly
"Ot course | heard Il.
"WelI, now, said Eddy, his foreiin-
ger waving wildly In the air and his
frecF'o. nose wiggling ike rabbits
quite independently of the rest of his
features, as 1t always did when he was
excited; "well, now, let's do it"
"Do what?'
why, not let the sun go down on
our wrath" explained Eddy. "You
Just wait till make the sunstand still. u
"Do what?" gasped.
This" said he, sitting down on the
anvil and emphasizing his remarks
with his ever active forefnger, 'you
heard what grandpa rend; Let not the
sun go down on your wrath
Don't yOu see, 1t means l is: Il
you get mad that isn't WI ked, because
everybody gets mad, you know; but il
you let the sun go down when you're
mad that's wicked"
'How do you know?" L objected.
Il thought it only meant it was wicked
to get angry mad. D"
"It don't say that, " said Eddy stoutly.
ut says, BE ye angry and sin not.
Let not the sun go down on your
wrath. That means get mad all you
want to, but don't let the sun go down
when you're mad. -
But the sun always does go down, u
l persisted.
That's because people don't get mad
enough" he answered promptly; 'fi
they did, the sun would stay up.
Don't you know" he went on eagerly,
"Josha did once, and the sun stood
still and everybody thought he waf
mad at those five old kings for trying
10 keep the s1n mp. That's what we We
got TO do-get so awful mad.
Here was proof from Holy Writ it.
self. Conviction at Cnce sat firm upon
me.
"Oh, won't it be fun" I cried
when it's o'clock and the sun knows
he ought to go down and he tugs and
tugs like Spotty's calf at the rope TO
get away and he can't!"
TIE PROBLEM THAT PRESENTED ITSELF
But a serious problem came with the
necessity of generating for the occs
sion a supply of wrath sufficient tC
interfere with the movements OF tht
solar system, and yet not sufficient tC
interfere with the pursuits of the pro
mOters of the plan.
We did little all the forenoon but si
IN the tool house and discuss projects
What was the thing that made us an
griest?
By and by this one TACT struck clear
ly into our unhappy coDsciousness-
nothing made us both so ont and ont au
cry as to be sent to bed in the daytime
the one punishment gran imas gentle
ingenuity ever suggested.
Wen have to go to bed" sale
EDDY, grimly, and l sighed and ac
quIesced
And since We had got to go to bed Il
get up wrath enough for the occasion
we had got to do something so un
mlstakably bad that nothing but go
ing to bed as a punishment would b'
possible
Il know" I SAID suddenly. catch1n!
hold OF Eddy's roundabout, 81 know
we'll take Spotty's calf away from he
and shut it mp in the spring house
and when grandpa finds out what we'v,
done they'll send us'-I paused breath
!essly, and aglow with appreciation 70
my own ingenuity.
"Crackyi' cried Eddy, jumping
down off the anvil, 'that's bully for
girlv'
At o'clock the house was very still
Grandpa had driven off to town; grand
ma was lying down for her afternoo
nap; Jonas was off on week vacation
and there was no fear of Sarah in tn
kitchen, since that room didn't fac
our field of action.
But, IN spite of the fact that ther
wasn't the slightest danger of deteC
ton, we slipped with great show c
stealth, out of the tool house throug
the barn yard to the shed beyond
where Spotty stood with her four
h weeks-old calf
\ k.Spo'ty was grandpa's choicest Jer