Most of them sat with bowed heads.

"Spooky" Crane easily adjusted himself to the situation and promptly knelt in the straw, and with his face in his hands peeped between his fingers at the Evangelist.

Jim Peabody, the infidel, sat arrogantly erect with an impish snarl on his lip.

To him the whole business of praying was a huge piece of foolishness--except, of course, when under the wagon-box.

Aunt Sally Perkins knelt beside the front bench and clapped her hands hysterically during the prayer.