She tested everything that could be tested, till she hit at last on an impious plan to put God Himself to the proof.
The pious little girl arose one Sabbath afternoon from her religious meditations, when all the house was taking its after-dinner nap, and went out in the yard, and stopped at the gate.

She took out her pocket handkerchief.

She looked at it.

Yes, that would do for the experiment.
She put it back into her pocket.

She did not have to rehearse mentally the sacred admonition not to carry anything beyond the house-limits on the Sabbath day.