gunday Syehools.

ZOHNNIE is ‘‘going on to nine years old,” and being asked by his
teacher to write a “piece” on the benefits of Sunday-schools gave
the following views:

Benneyfit. Sunday-sckools is a grate benneyfit to children’s
fathers and mothers. It gives ’m peace and happyness. Every
Sunday mornin’ my pa and ma gets up late coz pa is always tired
Sundays. After breakfast pa always says, come hussel round
children and go to Sunday-sckool, for pa is tired and wants a
little piece and rest Sundays. Then pa goes and lays down on the sofy and
smokes and reads papers all the forenoon. Ma she sees to getting dinner, for
pa says he must have a good dinner on Sunday anyway. Ma has to take
care of the baby too,-for the hired gal is a cathlick and says she won't stay
home from church fer nobody, and ma being a protestan has to mind her.

Benneyfit 2. Sunday-sckools save children’s pas and mas from going to
church. One day the minister was up to our house and he told pa and ma
they ort to go to church. And pa says O, I always send all my children to
Sunday-sckool, and guess that will have todo. And so ma and pa don’t go to
church but ma says she would like to.

Benneyfit 3. Sunday-sckools saves children’s payrents a great deal of
money. When the minister told pa he ort to help pay the church expenses,
pa said, O I give my children a nickel a piece every Sunday to take to
Sunday-sckool. But the minister said, yes, but the children gets it all back
again in cards and books and picnics and Krismas trees. And pa said, well,
it is all I can afford.

Benneyfit 4. Sunday-school saves the big boys-and girls from going to
church. When the boys get big enuf to smoke and to not mind their pas then
they stop going to’ Sunday-sckool. Only they go to church some nites when
the girls go along, and then they all sit in back seats and chew gum. My pa
told Jim, my big brother, that he ort to go to church reglar. But Jim said
there aint no need of my going mor’n there is of your going. I have as much
rite to stay at home as you have. But pa said he was tired on Sundays. Pa
keeps a store, but every day he says times is SO. hard . he don’t sell, much
and don’t. have much to do. —

Benneyfit. 5. . Sunday- -sckools - do « a | great deal ak good to. ‘children, If
it warnt for: them ‘they woulda’t know nothing. ° Fer their’ payrents haint got
no time to teach em. Children learn songs and verses and things. ‘If they