A little literary jewel..
A few weeks ago we were having dinner with some friends. It did not take long to look around and see that they enjoyed a great read. I wasn’t sure we could convince Bekah to come home with us. A we shared our meal, the wife mentioned a book and shared how delightful it was. I had never heard of it and she mentioned her husband might share a chapter before we left.
He did share two chapters and then they lent us the book to read at our leisure. My children couldn’t wait to finish it and hated to see it end.
O Ye Jigs & Juleps! A humorous slice of Americana by a turn-of-the-century pixie, aged ten is a collection of essays written in the early 1900s by a young American girl, Virginia Cary Hudson. Her view on life around her is charming and hilarious. You cannot read it without a smile and a chuckle.
She shares her thoughts on the Sacraments to the Library to Church Etiquette.
“Sacraments are what you do in Church. What you do at home is something else. Cooking and sewing and running the Bissels sweeper and eating and sleeping and playing and scrubbing yourself are not sacraments.”
“The library is a memorial. A memorial is something that somebody says or gives or builds after you are dead and can’t hear it or get it or see it. And now may God grant us all a good night’s rest and not let the fire whistle blow. Amen. Hallelujah and so be it as it may.”
“Before I go into the house of the Lord with praise and thanksgiving, I lift up mine eyes unto the town clock from whence cometh the time to see if I am late. It is not etiquette to be late.”
If you have not read this delightful book, you must find it! We will sadly be returning our borrowed copy but it is a must have for our family bookshelf!
