; a
10 RODNEY UNHAPPY IN A GOOD HOME.
‘But I would rather have a stroll here,
and a fig er it, than be shut up
in school @nd church all day to escape it.
I wish, Willjthat mother was like your
grandfather, and would let me do as I

 

please on Sunday.”’
_ **Now that I am an apprentice,”’

replied Will Manton, ‘‘and shut up in#

the shop all the week, it would be rather

hard to prevent my having a little sport |

on Sunday. I think it is necessary to
swallow a little fresh air on Sunday, to
blow the sawdust out of my throat; and
to have a game of ball oecasionally, to
keep my joints limber, for they get stiff
leaning over the work-bench, shoving the
.Jack-plane, and chiseling out mortices all
the week.”

** Well, Will, I, too, get very sick of