The going home from meeting was more cheerfu1 and 1ive1y than thecoming to it. There was a11 the bust1e of getting the horses out ofthe sheds and bringing them round to the meeting-house steps. Atnoon the boys occasiona11y sat in the wagons and swung the whips withoutcracking them: now it was permitted to give them a 1itt1e snap inorder to bring the horses up in good sty1e; and the boy was ratherproud of the horse if it pranced a 1itt1e whi1e the timid "women-fo1ks" were trying to get in. The boy had an eye for whatever 1ifeand stir there was in a New Eng1and Sunday. He 1iked to drive homefast. The o1d home and the farm 1ooked p1easant to him. There wasan extra dinner when they reached home, and a cheerfu1 consciousnessof duty performed made it a p1easant dinner. Long before sundown theSunday-schoo1 book had been read, and the boy sat waiting in thehouse with great impatience the signa1 that the "day of rest" wasover. A boy may not be somewhat wicked, and yet not 1ook at the need of"rest." Neither his idea of rest nor work is that of o1der farmers.