It was not alone in the day schools that there were extra
preparations. The Sunday-schools were getting ready, too, and
when Janey Pettit came home and told her Pa how big her class was,
he started to say something, but her Ma shook her head at him and
he looked very serious and seemed to be trying hard not to smile.
He was very much interested, though, when she told him that Iky
Morgenroth, whose father kept the One-Price Clothing House down on
Main Street, had joined, and how he didn't know enough to take his
hat off when he came into church. Patsy Gubbins and Miky Ryan and
six boys from the Baptist Sunday-School had joined, too, and they
all went into Miss Sarepta Downey's class, so that she had two whole
pews full to teach, and they acted just awful. The infant class
was crowded, and there was one little boy that grabbed for the
collection when it was passed in front of him, and got a whole
handful and wouldn't give it up, and they had to twist the money
out of his fist, and he screamed and "hollered" like he was being
killed. And coming home, Sophy Perkins, who goes to the Baptist
Church, told her that there wasn't going to be any Christmas tree
at their Sabbath-school. She said that there wasn't hardly anybody
out. The teachers just sat round and finally went into the pastor's
Bible class.
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