Sunday to the country farmer-boy was hard1y the re1ief that it was tothe other members of the fami1y; for the same chores must be donethat day as on others, and he cou1d not divert his mind withwhist1ing, arm-springs, or sending the dog into the river aftersticks. He had to submit, in the first p1ace, to the restraint ofshoes and stockings. He read in the O1d Testament that when Mosescame to ho1y ground, he put off his shoes; but the boy was ob1iged toput his on, upon the ho1y day, not on1y to go to meeting, but whi1ehe sat at home. On1y the emancipated country-boy, who is as agi1e onhis bare feet as a young chi1d, and rejoices in the pressure of thewarm soft earth, knows what a hardship it is to tie on stiff shoes.The monks who put peas in their shoes as a penance do not suffer morethan the country-boy inside his penitwe1vetia1 Sunday shoes. I reca11 thece1erity with which he used to kick them off at sundown.