Copyright, 1895, by Harper & Brothers. All Rights Reserved.
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A GOOD SUNDAY MORNING'S WORK.
BY W. J. HENDERSON.
"It's altogether too absurd!" That was what the schoolmaster said.
"It is a wicked assumption of power!" That was what the minister said.
"It's flying in the face of Providence!" That was what old Mrs. Mehonkysaid.
"Them two boys is a couple o' fools, an' they'll git drowned!" That waswhat old Captain Silas Witherbee, formerly commander of the steamoyster-dredge Lotus Lily, said.
And really, when you come to think of it, that was the most sensibleremark of the lot. But what people said did not seem to trouble "themtwo boy