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Updated: June 10, 2025
On Saturdays the village presented a somewhat livelier appearance, and the shade trees around the court house square and along Front Street served as hitching-posts for a goodly number of horses and mules and stunted oxen, belonging to the farmer-folk who had come in to trade at the two or three local stores. A murder was a rare event in Branson County.
“Oh! oh!” “And what else do you think she’s going to let me do?” “I can’t guess. Oh, tell me quick, Rosie.” “She says she’s going to let me give him his bath Saturdays and Sundays and wheel him out every day in his carriage.” “Rosie,” Maida said impressively, “you ought to be the happiest little girl in the world. Think of having a baby brother for a Christmas present.
In Buck's terminology, it was identified as "The Centre Street mashers": those pimply, weak-faced, bad-eyed young men who congregate at prominent corners every afternoon, especially Saturdays, to smirk at the working-girls, and to pass, wherever they could, from their murmured, "Hello, Kiddo," and "Where you goin', baby?" to less innocent things.
My boy must go to the Council School it does appear; but thicky man will give him more teaching in a week than school-master in a year and there he goes o' Saturdays and wants no driving, moreover." He returned to his beer, thoughtful-eyed.
Taking into consideration everything, the punishment was not an extraordinarily severe one, for there were only two more Saturdays to the end of term, and the sentence made no mention of the Wednesday half-holidays. But in effect it was serious indeed.
On Saturdays the men who had done extra work would fall in and go up to the captain of the guard and he would give to each man what was coming to him. He had it all down in a book, and when a man would come up and call for what was due him the captain would give it to him, whatever he wanted that the rules allowed. "One Saturday I fell in with the others.
He resolved for the rest of his life to preach, without remuneration, where such preaching was most needed. And so the last eight or nine years of his life were spent in preaching on Saturdays and Sundays for weak churches, and the remainder of the time in working and writing.
To attend to it my father employed, on Wednesdays and Saturdays, an old fellow over whose head some sixty-five summers had passed without imparting to it a single secret. In short, he was the very worst gardener in West Bromicheham, and so obstinately, so insufferably, opinionated withal that one day, in a fit of irritation, my father slew him with his own spade.
Then there were the lights and the crowd and the shouting so that it was like twenty country fairs rolled into one. After the excitement of coming home Saturdays with so much money wore off, I began to forget that I was earning fifteen instead of nine. If Ruth had spent it on the table I'm sure I'd have forgotten it even more quickly.
But I fancy our manager saw that I was not a man to be played with. Eliza's mother dined with us, and brought a couple of ducks. Conscience, I should say. That is to say, she may possibly mention them if any occasion arises. On Saturdays I always get back from the office early. This particular Saturday afternoon I looked at our chimneys as I came down the street.
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