The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-05-31
that makes nineteen; and

duced to the Bromwichs.
It was delightful for the little boys.
They came to Elizabeth Eliza, and
asked
"Can't we 60 and ask more? Can't
we fetch the Larkins?"
ooh dear, no p answered Elizabeth
Eliza. " I can't even count them =
Mrs. Peterkin found time to meet Eliza
beth Eliza in the side entry to ask if
there were going to be cups enough.
CT have set Agamemnon in the front
entry to count" said Elizabeth Eliza,
putting her hand to her head.
The little boys came to say that the
Maberlys were coming.
"The Maberlys p exclaimed Elizabeth
Eliza. ct never asked them"
sit is your fathers doing" cried Mrs.
Peterkin. 81 do believe he asked every
body he saw !" And she hurried back to
her guests.
"Whati if father really has asked every
body?" Elizabeth Eliza said to herself,
pressing her head again with her hand.
There was the COW and the pig. But
if they all took tea or coffee, or both, the
cups could not go round.
Agamemnon returned in the midst of
her agony.
He had not been able to count the
guests, they moved about so, they talked
so; and it would not look we'll to appear
to count.
"What shall we do?" exclaimed Eliza
beth Eliza.
"We are not a family for an emer-
gency," sighed Agamemnon.
"What do you suppose they do in
Philadelphia at the Exhibition, when
there are more people than Gu ps and
saucers?" asked Elizabeth Eliza. could
not you go and inquire? I know the
lady from Philadelphia is talking about
the Exhibition, and telling why she must
go back to receive friends. And they
must have trouble there Could not you
go in and ask, just as if you wanted to
know?"
Agmemnon looked into the room, but
there were too many talking with the
lady from Philadelphia.
eff we could only look into some book"
he said, "the encyclopedia or the die
tionary- they are such a help some
times p
At this moment he thought of his
"Great Triumphs of Great Men, that
he was reading just now. He had not
reached the lives of the Stephensons, or
any of the men of modern times. He
might skip over to them-he knew they
were men for emergencies.
He ran up to his room, and met Sol
ONION John coming down with chairs.
"That is a good thought, said
Agamemnon. 81 will bring down more
upstairs chairs. <#
"No," said Solomon John, "here are
all that can come down the rest of the
bedroom chairs match bureaus, and they
never will do!
Agamemnon kept on to his own room,
to consult his books. If only he could
invent something on the spur of the
moment-a set of bedroom furniture,
that i'll an emergency could be turned
into parlor chairs 1t seemed an idea
and he sat himself down to his table and
pencils, when he was interrupted by the
little boys, who came to tell him that
Elizabeth Eliza wanted him.
The little boys had been busy think
ing. They proposed that the tea-table,
with all the things on, should be pushed
iAtO the front room, where the company
were; and those could take cups who
could find cups.
But Elizabeth Eliza feared it would
not be safe to push SO large table it
might upset and break what china they
had.
Agamemnon came down to find her
pouring out tea, in the back room. She
called to him.
" Agamemnon, you must bring Mary
Osborne to help, and perhaps one of the
Gibbons boys would carry round some
of the cups"
And so she began to pour out and to
send round the sandwiches, and the tea,
and the coffee. Let things go as far as
they would
The little boys took the sugar and
cream.
AS soon as they have done drinking,
bring back the cups and saucers to be
washed, she said to the Gibbons boys
and the little boys.
This was an idea Of Mary Osborne's.
But what was their surprise, that the
more they poured out, the more cups
they seemed to have Elizabeth Eliza
took the coffee, and Mary Osborne the
tea. Amanda brought fresh cups from
the kitchen.
CT can't understand it." Elizabeth
Eliza said to Amanda. "Do they come.
back to you, round through the piazza !?
Surely there. are more cups than there
were r Ri
Her surprise was greater when some
of them proved to be coffee-cups that
matched the set And they never had
had coffee-cups.
Solomon John came in at this moment.
breathless with triumph.
Solomon John p Elizabeth Eliza ex-
claimed, 81 cannot understand the
cups p
" It is my doing" said Solomon John,
with an elevated air ct went to +bo