Chapter 5

document for learning about a religion

Then all afternoon they must sit on a row on a bench and study their catechism...

harness; hook animal to wagon or cart

They walked, because hitching up the horses was work...

a religious song

Laura and Mary lay in their trundle bed and listened to the Sunday hymns...

day of rest and worship

That would be breaking the Sabbath.

a piece of cloth for practicing stitching

Little girls had to sit in the house and stitch on samplers.

tub for washing

But in the wintertime Pa filled and heaped the washtub with clean snow.