Walnut Grove-In a recent brazen display of ingenuity, town founder Lars Hansen has discovered a loophole to allowing work on Sunday.
“Ja, all you have to do is say it is church contest,” Lars chuckles.
It seems that Lars has long been searching for an acceptable way to get some work done ona Sunday. After coming up the idea of proposing the work as a church contest, Lars simply waited for the opportune time to test his theory.
“Charles Ingalls acts like a child, climbing trees, but it works out for me,” Lars explains. “He cannot work and the town is feeling helpful, stacking the grain. Ja, it was the perfect time to see if my idea would work.”
The events Lars refers to happened earlier this week. Charles Ingalls, the hardworking family man and newest most shiny-chested resident of Hero Township, took his children on picnic. While he enjoyed flying a kite while his children merely watched him hooting and hollering, his fun came crashing down–literally. After the kite became stuck in a tree and Charles went to fetch it, he came crashing down, breaking several ribs in the process.
“It’s a fool’s game, climbing trees” Lars states judgmentally, “but it did give the perfect time to try working on Sunday by saying it is a church contest.”
Chuckling, Lars added, “You don’t found a town without gumption.”
After the town helped Charles fulfill his contract and regain possession of his oxen, Lars jumped in and suggested that the town plow Charles’s fields on Sunday. Lars decided to test the waters with this case by claiming it is a church contest.
“I think it worked, ja,” Lars comments. “We got in some work on a Sunday and not one complaint since it was for church.”
Looking forward, Lars is excited about the possibilities this opens up.
“This time we saved Charles the work of plowing,” Lars says. “What will we get away with next on a Sunday?”
At press time, Caroline Ingalls was taking note of Lars’s strategy and keeping it in her mental pocket in case it would ever be useful for her.
“In my wildest dreams, the men could gamble over a baseball game in the name of raising funds for church” Caroline confesses, “but I don’t know that it will ever happen. A girl can dream though, right?”
