The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-02-26

small boys and Clarence Potherton
, ;peared II black-face and had a great
deal to say about the train that went
TO MORO tomorrow but got all
tangled up in his time Of departure
ana destination and did three quar-
ters Of the song in manner which
suggested that his mouth was flied
! wl-h hot potatoes.
/ ullan Blackburn told a few Jokes
about the baby brother that couidn t
! pc sent back to heaven because he'd
bcon used four days and about lrlsn
widow ladies who had the news of
their bereavements broken to them in
strange and wonderful ways. And
! Douglas Macmillan appeared Oh the
scene in Scottish kits with a couple
/ Of cavalry swords and did the Sword
Dance, his younger brother impro-
vising a Scottish bagpipe out Of his
nose, while several elderly ladies
turned their faces away and said the
very idea to let Douglas come into q
church entertainment in his bare legs
like that and why didn't someone send
him home to put on his pants?
The entertainment was concluded
win the singing Of America
Mlbb Henderson with her rich but
abused contralto taking the verses as
solos and the audience joining in on
the chorus. The young ladies took
the soprano, the elderly ladies took
the alto, the young men took the
tenor and the old men took anything
they could get.
/ he parents then called noisy chill
dren from their fellowship on the
church steps, or lifted phenomenal
infants who had slept through it ell,
from their laps and started toward
home.
Several good souls rolled up their
sleeves and pinned on borrowed
aprons and tackled the pile. dishes,
looking for their reward in heaven.
Lovers pared off and dissolved quietly
into moonlit streets and under sleep
ing naples. Adam McQuarry blew
out all the lanterns that hadn't caught
! fife and proceeded to "cart all the
J junk indoors, because it looked like
rain before morning and the table
tops might warp"
And through the entertainment,
with half plate Of ice cream uncon-
sumed before her, little Mary Wood
sat apart with Herb Truman and
thought how this indeed was life, and
of her mother at moonlit window
far away on Cobb Hill too weary and
heart-heavy to seek her bed.
Herb got to his feet, found his
hat under the table, effectively squel-
ched the riotous cowlick and muir
INJURED something about how he hoped
he could see her safe home. And
they causually moved off the lawn
with the others and found them
selves IN deserted summer streets
where the young man RECALLED her
with items of interest wherein his
own eccentricities were prominent.
He asked her if. she supposed the
little black mare, Monday Washing
could possibly contract shoe boil and
when she said she couldn't imagine
such q thing, he declared that Mon
day Washing had done that thing and
explained in great detail how Doc
Sawyer the veterinary had lanced it
and taken away a quart and could
she suppose you could take away q
"quartt" from the leg of a mare as
small and neat as Monday Washing?
Mary replied rather family that she
could not conceive Of such a happen
ing which prompted Slug to move on
to the subject of CHAMBERS.
Had she ever had a horse with
CHAMBERS? No? Well, did she know
T what to do if she should have horse
with CHAMBERS? Nc? Well, he would
t tell her so that she might be pre-
pared for such an emergency and save
: the animal from the death-violent al
! the hands of the authorities. Which
! he did. with much elaboration of the
t price the secret had cost him and the
intimation that he was disclosing il
r only because he took it she was 9
! friend and could be trusted.
4 He confded to her that jim StiIes's
collie dor had mango and that moth
| ing would tickle him more than te
e know that Jin's dog had given it te
! fussy little Miss Sparrow's curly
e tailed pug He said that if Frank