Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-30
5Oih Anniversary Of Social Corner Sister

Blanche came in the back door while Aunt Hester came in the front with such rush we all got to laughing and made such racket that M. E. M. said we sounded like Chatterbox.
 Sis Wife was there all dressed up in pink silk, for she is Beauty Lover, you know.
 We had a nice treat from Polly Peppermint.
 Potlatch gave us the compliments of the day. She said we looked like a lot of Hayseeds.
 Busybody poked her head in the door with the question, Am Butt in?"
 o. H. c. and Montville, L. H. K. and Lorraine sent their, regrets, saying they couldn't come.
 M. S. and Kettle. Maria came around by Norwich, thinking they might run across the editor, but they "got left" /Papa's Boy had brought along some Buttercups; and Jeanette put them on the center table when Evelyn and the Bonnie Lass in running through the room to catch Co-Sold, who had just arrived, caused Biddy through her Ig- norance to tip 1t over into Orrilla's lap. Well, I guess there was some | thing a-doing then.
  Wild Cherries and Aline brought some Hepaticas (they grow near Aunty's of 1 Willimantic).
 Cherisette in walking over saw | Bee In a Twining Rose and was afraid of it.
 Aunt Serena wished more than once l she had stayed away for Samantha | had her out in the kitchen making cookies.
 Sunshine, warm hearted thing, ask | ed A Friend if she was One of Them.
 Jane Ann came in nearly Frozen. Marinda Butler Robinson looked out | of the window just in time to see l Hannah Who was running Cross Criss in the lots.
 Antique had learned from Experi- ence to be on time, and Trot they did. | Married and Happy was there, you can rest assured; but, too bad, she had | left her bags at home. l l may have left out some of the names of those who were there but | there were so many (even the editor ] got nervous).
 Then we had a hard and strenuous time. We just sat there and talked and talked.
 Pink Rose and Auntie were telling how they went shopping and forgot 1 their pocketbooks.
 Aunt Mehitable, dear old soul, know we were hungry for one of her stories, so she told one about the little chil- dren who were returning home from school and met a favorite colored preacher and the children were al- ways eager to hear him preach"
 "Helloi Uncle Sambo," they cried.
 Hello! childrens," said Sambo. Say what do you s'pose I seen down town today?" he said.
 What was it, Uncle SamboY' asked one.
 Well. sir, I seen a man goin' home wfd a gallon of whislxey in one hand and a half pound O meat in de odder hand. I says to myself, 'Sambo. dat's a first rate text for a sermon You
 see, childrens, dat whiskey means
 misery, and dat meat am comfort, and I knows dat ev'rything in dat mans
 house Is on the same scale: A gallor
 of misery to every half-pound of com.
 fort. Don't you think Uncle Sambo is right?"
 "Yes!" shouted the children, for they
 had been taught what strong drinl ! would do, and most of them had sign.
 ed the pledge in the Sunday school After the story was told, Aunt Me.
 hitable took from out of her "gree1 Abag" lot of those little cards tha; J l say on them Sunday School Temper.
 ance Pledge and do you believe it, WI : all signed.
 I saw Samantha kept looking up &
 the clock and I am always on tn, ) alert for such things. Evidently sh, wanted us to go home. Married and Happy's blue eyes shon, as she jumped on her feet to presen
 the wedding gift of a hundred dollar in gold from the Social Corner sisters Samantha tried to thank us, but i
 was no use. She found she had los : her tongue, and she just made a court sey and ran out of the room. Billie, Nat and the editor decided 1 ' was time we started for home. l We decided before we left that we, 3 never had better time Since we ha ) the measles" : EDDY. ] Holland County.