Norwich bulletin., 1912-05-25

Well, sisters, I finished up my house. cleaning the other morning, and when stwas all done sat down in the willer rocker I got at the tradin' stamp store, to rest and knit a spell. Knittin' work is real handy. Sort O keeps your hands busy and leaves your mind free to travel round the neighberheod. My mind generally keeps step to the click of the needles, SC it mostly has te hustle some.
 We'll, I'd reviewed my own cleanin', and then traveled on to my neighbors. Seems to me the Social Corner sisters must all be pretty nigh through with then spring scrubbin'," thinks l. What pity the Editor bein' man, aiat got his office all slicked up, too, like the rest of us folks.''
 Just then an idea struck me- An 1t struck so hard l pretty near dropped stitch. Why, Betsy Bobbett," I said to myself. right out loud, "why don't you get two or three of the sisters and go clean up for him? Like as not he'd be real thankful to have. you. Might as well tell him he can have day off, too, an we'll edit the Corner for him this week. He must be kind O tired and might relish a change"
 So 1 started right off. I got Mrs. Robinson, and Ready, and A Dreamer. They all agreed to be ready bright and early Wednesday morning, and Papa's Boy said he'd take US over in his auto We thought twas real good of him, especially a.s he said he'd take the Ed itor out to Clara of CanteTbury's for lunch, and take him round some to see the folks, and then bring him back before dark, so as to take us home when our work was done.
 We all thought that four of us was enough, as too many cooks spoil the broth, too many editors might spoil the Corner, and anyway they was liable to disagree.
 Well, now. the Editor did look con- siderable surprised and not extra pleased when we walked in an told him what we was calculatin' on doin'. But when we told him we'd thought 'twould be a good chance to give him a days rest and clean out that pigeon hole into the bargain, somethin' must have pleased hiRa, for he sort O grin ned all over his face. and said: Its real kind of you, ladies. and now I'll leave you in charge and you may do just what you please, only I'll ask you to be kind enough not to look in this book" CTwas a. big book and we sort O guessed it had the sisters names in it)
 Of course we promised Ckept F, tool, and he went off whistlin', and pretty soon we heard the auto chug chugg1ng down street.
 It didn't take us long to do the cleaning It wasn't real dirty, only lit tered up same as men generally do scatter things. So we soon had ev- 174T g.1fn inc r. tin some vases of flowers on the win dow sills and pinning up on the walls some pretty postcards that had come in the mornings mail, we set down tc | do the rest of the business. l thought maybe we'd better tackle 1 the pigeonhole first, but the rest said | they thought we'd better look over the mornin's mall and pick out the letters | that have just got to go in. So we di- | vided 'em into four piles and each o1 us took one and got busy.
 | It was slow work at first. atn'7 much used to readin' writin', but when I got used to the different pothooks the writers used, I found the letters were real interesting and things went swim 1 mingly.
 I read my pile all through, and ther read 'em all over again, as I couldn't seem to find any that I thought might | be left out a week or so. The rest seemed to be in about the same fix. Finally we thought maybe we'd cut some of the letters down, an put 'en 1 all in; but then again there was an other hitch for if one was wilffn' tC
 cut out some of the recipes, the res' wanted 'em left in, and while part O. l us thought we might leave out some O | the remarks on woman suffrage to ad-
 vantage, the rest were sure they
 prove the most tuterestin' part of thC | paper.
 So after a while we concluded to le
 the letters wait spell, and do the res 1 of the job. which we begun to thinl
 wasn't quite so easy as it looked.
 After considerable talk we picked ou
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