Monday Noon
To-day things were more tumultuous , Saturday being combined wash-and-cleaning-day at the school , and a hard time for all hands . Ten of the girls came over from the big house to our back yard , and there , assisted by one of my boys , who kept up fires under the big kettles and carried water from the well , did the washing for the entire school ; while in every building on the place cleaning , scrubbing and window-washing were in full blast . I was sorry to have to punish little Hen to-night for calling it a `` hell of a day . '' _ Monday Noon . _ Yesterday morning I accompanied my boys to Sunday-school in the village . They showed a good deal of restlessness before the service was over , -- not surprising considering that only two had ever heard of a Sunday-school before . After dinner I undertook to cheer and entertain them by reading Robinson Crusoe , out in our yard , beginning in the thick of the story , where the hero is in sight of his island .