“Maybe Frank would drive us. Perhaps you could get Sue to go too. Mother’d let Jane go sure if she went.”
The boys agreed to think it over and to keep it for a surprise for the little girls.
Sundays always dragged in the Morton household. Dr. and Mrs. Morton, like many other excellent people of their day, believed in the saving grace of “Thou shalt not!” The list of things the children couldn’t do on Sunday was much longer than the list of coulds.
On this particular Sunday Ernest was specially aggrieved because his mother had sternly deprived him of “The Last of the Mohicans” as being unsuitable for Sabbath reading, offering him a painfully instructive volume from the Sunday School library in its place.
He relieved his feelings to Chicken Little.