"Don't you know that this is Sunday on earth, when all must rest
from work?"

"Whether it is Sunday on earth or Monday in heaven, it is all the same
to me," laughed the old man.

"Then carry your bundle forever, and as you do not care for Sunday on
earth, you shall have a long Monday in heaven, where you shall be a
warning to all Sabbath-breakers evermore."

Then the old man found himself swiftly rising in the air. Quick as a
thought he was landed in the moon, where his wife saw him as she stood
outside her door that night to watch for his coming. There he still
stands bearing his fagots, and as all days are Mondays in the moon, he
can never Break Sunday Again.

[Illustration: THE MAN IN THE MOON. From a seal dated 1335.
The legend says "I will teach thee, Walter, why I carry thorns in
the moon"]




A STORY OF AN EVENING STAR

_Greek_


"Every night, mother, I see a beautiful star in the sky so different