"Make haste," said the latter, impatiently: "we won't have a bit of time to play."
Daisy did not move, but stood with rising color, trying to make up her mind to speak.
"Oh! you disobliging thing!" said Violet, and she ran for the book.
"Oh! don't," said Daisy, as Violet came back and stooped to put the Bible on the footstool; "I didn't mean to be disobliging, but we ought not to use the Bible to play with."
"Pooh!" said Violet: "Lily's little feet won't hurt it. It's all worn out, any way. The cover is real shabby."
"I didn't mean that," answered Daisy; "I meant because it is God's book, and we ought to treat it very carefully."
"Oh, fiddle! How awfully particular you are, Daisy!" said Minnie Grey. "Why, girls, do you know, the other day, when I was playing paper-dolls with her and I turned up a Bible to make the side of a house, she took it away, and when I put it back again 'cause it stood up better than the other books, she said she wouldn't play if I did so with the Bible."
"I s'pose Daisy would call that 'taking God's name in vain,'" said another, half reproachfully; "wouldn't you, Daisy?"
"I think it is something the same," answered Daisy, feeling as if all the others were finding fault with her and thinking her "awfully particular," a crime which no little girl likes to have laid to her charge.
"I don't see how," said Lola. "I know we ought not to play with the Bible; but I don't see how it is taking God's name in vain."