CHAPTER IV
SOME USEFUL DISCOVERIES—A COMICAL INCIDENT
Next morning all were early awake, and the children sprang about the tree like young monkeys.
"What shall we begin to do, father?" they cried. "What do you want us to do to-day?"
"Rest, my boys," I replied, "rest."
"Rest?" repeated they. "Why should we rest?"
"'Six days shalt thou labor and do all that thou hast to do, but on the seventh, thou shalt do no manner of work.' This is the seventh day," I replied, "on it, therefore, let us rest."
"What, is it really Sunday?" asked Jack; "how jolly! oh, I won't do any work; but I'll take a bow and arrow and shoot, and we'll climb about the tree and have fun all day."
"That is not resting," said I, "that is not the way you are accustomed to spend the Lord's day."