tudied Greek and Hebrew, so I could
have read the Bible in the original."

"H'm!" said Allison thoughtfully. "That would be interesting, wouldn't
it? I always wondered why they did it, but I don't know but I'll study
them myself. I think I'd enjoy it if there was a real reason besides
just the discipline of it they are always talking about when you kick
about mathematics and languages."

"Well," said Leslie, sitting up interestedly, "is that all there is to
it? Did some one just up and say we had to keep Sunday because God
did? I think that is a kind of superstition. I don't see that God
would want to make us do everything He did. We couldn't. I _wouldn't_
unless _He_ said to, anyhow."

"O Les! You're way off," laughed her brother. "God did. He said,
'Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor,
and do all thy work, but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord
thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy
daughter, thy man servant nor thy maid servant----' Don't you remember
the Ten Commandments? No, I guess you were too little to learn them.
But I got a Testament for learning them once. Say, Cloudy, when did He
give that command? Right away after He made Adam and Eve?"

"I'm not sure," said Julia Cloud, fluttering the leaves of her Bible
over to the second slip of paper. "I don't find any reference to it in
my concordance till way over here in Exodus, after the children of
Israel had been in Egypt so many years, and Moses led them out through
the wilderness, and they got fretful because they hadn't any bread
such as they used to have in Egypt, so God sent them manna that fell
every morning. But He told them not to leave any over for the next day
because it would gather worms and smell bad, except on Saturday, when
they were to gather enough for the Sabbath. Listen: 'And they gathered
it every morning, every man according to his eating; and when the sun
waxed hot, it melted. And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they
gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man; and all the
rulers of the congregation came and told Moses. And he said unto them,
This is that which the Lord hath said, To-morrow is the rest of the
holy sabbath unto the Lord; bake that, which ye will bake to-day, and
seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for
you to be kept until the morning. And they laid it up till the
morning, as Moses bade; and it did not stink, n