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as a lark, and as happy as a prince—tell me, Bob, how is it you pass your Sundays?
Rob. I'll do that with pleasure; and if you can produce but half as many good reasons against my way of spending the Sabbath, as I have against yours, then I'll say no more. — Well, then, you must know, that when Saturday evening comes—
Wm. Saturday evening!—Why, shopmate, I asked you how you employed the Sunday—and not what you do on the Saturday. Does your Sunday begin on the Saturday? This is making a long Sunday of it, indeed.
Rob. I always consider the Saturday evening as the preparation for the Sabbath; and as to the length of it, it always flies too fast for me—
The gladness of that happy day,
My soul would wish it long to stay.
Wm. Well then, on Saturday evening—what then ?
Rob. Why then my wife and little ones are all as busy as if they were getting ready to go to court the next morning; indeed, I always count the Sabbath as the grand court day of the King of kings; for as the hymn says—
"The king himself, comes near,
And feasts his saints to day;
Here we may sit, and see him here,
And love, and praise, and pray."
The children's play-things are all put away—shoes all cleaned—shirts and things all aired and laid ready for the morning—house made tidy—and my wife waiting till I come home,
