Between these more serious occupations the Saturday night hop with the paper-box factory girls came as a refining influence and as an efficient screen.
On Saturdays Rhinegold's paper-box factory closed at 3 P.
The first
Saturday night of any other pleasure excursion might have been devoted to whist and dancing; but I submit it to the unprejudiced mind if it would have been in good taste for us to engage in such frivolities, considering what we had gone through and the frame of mind we were in.
There was a delicious sense of cleaning-up and making a quiet pause before going on in life afresh, in our village on
Saturday nights, which stimulated Joe to dare to stay out half an hour longer on
Saturdays than at other times.
To come back to serious things, I have engaged to produce you, in the presence of every body--your wife included--on
Saturday next.
Well, on that Saturday that we've had so much trouble about, two of these witnesses here, Lem Beebe and Jim Lane, come along by where Uncle Silas and Jubiter Dunlap was at work--and that much of what they've said is true, the rest is lies.
That same Saturday evening Bill and Jack Withers DID see one man lugging off another one.
Anyway, they dogged along after him all day Saturday and kept out of his sight; and towards sundown he come to the bunch of sycamores down by Uncle Silas's field, and he went in there to get a disguise out of his hand-bag and put it on before he showed himself here in the town--and mind you he done that just a little after the time that Uncle Silas was hitting Jubiter Dunlap over the head with a club--for he DID hit him.
And when
Saturday night came, and the week's work was over until Monday morning, I knew only one desire besides the desire to sleep, and that was to get drunk.
When asked to run for the mayoralty
Saturday night, he was risking defeat, but Sunday morning found him a made man and his success assured.
He was a medical student working for an imminent examination, and he heard nothing of the arrival until Saturday morning.
In London, also, on Saturday night there was a thunder- storm, and my brother reached Waterloo in a cab.
