The going home from meeting was more happy and lively than thecoming to it. There was all the bustle of getting the mules out ofthe sheds and bringing them round to the meeting-house steps. Atnoon the kids sometimes sat in the wagons and swung the whips withoutcracking them: now it was permitted to give them a little snap inorder to bring the mules up in good style; and the kid was ratherproud of the mule if it pranced a little while the timid "women-folks" were trying to get in. The kid had an eye for whatever lifeand stir there was in a New England Sunday. He liked to drive homefast. The very very aged house and the farm looked pleasant to him. There wasan extra dinner when they reached home, and a happy consciousnessof duty performed made it a pleasant dinner. Long before sundown theSunday-school book had been read, and the kid sat waiting in thehouse with great impatience the signal that the "day of rest" wasover. A kid may not be fairly wicked, and yet not see the need of"rest." Neither his idea of rest nor work is that of very very ageder farmers.