Sunday in Vermont

Last Sunday one of the pastors of the little village of Pownal was walking to church when he saw a man, with his coat off, digging in his garden. The good man beheld the scene with grief and astonishment, and, coming up to the fence, began to recite in a solemn voice, "Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy. Six days thou shalt labor and do all thy work."

"See here," said the man in the garden, looking up, "be you talking to me?"

"Yes, my poor man, I am."

"Wal, you needn't worry about me, then. I ain't a goin' to do any work. I'm only diggin' worms to go a fishin' with."

--Augusta W. Thompson, Springfield

Vermont History, edited by Leon W. Dean, President, Green Mountain Folklore Society, Vol. XXIV, No. 4, October 1956