CHAPTER. V. 



The morning came, ;iml with it u day of alternate thuii 

 dcr :nid -turn i :ind sunshine, and our first Sunday in the 

 t'on-st. There were no line clothes in camp; no cliurch- 

 lu'll sounded across the \VMter; tlie hiu. family bible and the 

 religion- weekly had not journeyed thither in Wilkinson's 

 WMiron; but somehow all tliese had left some sort of im- 

 pre-v on men with sprouted heard-, worn :ind torn Mt.tire, 

 men who hud elmn^vd tlieir -kie, lint not their mind . 



(ieiitleiiH-n." slid Thompson. M- \\ e mier-ed from the 

 hut at't-r ItreakfM-t and strolled down to the rocks on tin- 

 shore, "I'm not very-traiirht laced, and don't pass, at home. 

 fora Puritan. l>y any means; hut 1 never tish in the woods, 

 on Sunday, unle I am desperately hungry. I'd make 

 a <oi-ry >h>\v a^ your spiritual teaeher. 1 susprct, although 

 lM-in.ii your Captain. 1 have tin- ri-ht to make the proper 

 Sunday laws of the woods for you. But. hoys, if you want 

 to tish to day, my advice K don't ! " 



"It i-^ not dillicult. worthy Captain, to accept your 

 advice." said the Professor, "in the presence of these rev- 

 erent forest j MIX! yonder pure ;ind phicid lake. \\ ith the sky 

 above us MS heniirnant here as where it bends over our Sab- 

 bath keeping homes." 



