The Sabbath

The Highlanders were long noted for their strict
observance of the Sabbath. On one occasion, a
professor of geology who was spending a holiday in
Ross-shire, was rambling along the road one Sunday
afternoon looking for specimens and stepping aside now and again to pick up a stone and break it with his little hammer. A venerable white-haired crofter, who was on his way to church, observed him as he was passing, stopped for a moment, and said solemnly,

“Gentleman, you are breaking more than just stones.”

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