Weekly Caledonian. (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1919-1920, 1919-03-05

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been used four days and about Ilisl
widow ladies who had the news q
their bereaNcments broken to thcm i
strange aud wonderful wuy,. An
DOUGLAS lucNiliaH appenrcd on TN
scene IN Scottish Kills with i couPl,
o. cavalry swords and did the Swor'
Dance, his younger brother ,mpto
wishing Scottish hagpiPc out IL h.
nose, while several elderly I;t.ir.
turned their faces away aud ~aid tn,
very idea TO let Douglas come r.to ;
ch0rrn entertainment IN his bare leo.
like that and why didn't someone sen,
h'm home to nut on his pantS:'
The entertainment Wa, conclude
with the singing Of America,
/ Nibb Henderson with her lich but
abused contr;tlto taking the verses It,
olo~ and tie audience joining III OF
The chcu>. The young ladies touh
the soprano, the elderly ladies toob
! III" alto, the young men took The
/ terror and the old men took anything
/ they could get.
Tine parents then called noisy chill
dron from their fellowship on tilc
church steps. or lifted phcnominal
infants WHO had slept through it all,
/ from their laps and started toward
/ home.
/ fcNtral GOOD souls rolled up thPir
sleeves and pinned on borrowed
| tnrI led
looking for their reward IN heaven,
Lovers pared or and dissolved quietly
into moonllt streets and under Sleep
ing maple. Alan McQuar'N blew
out All me lanterns that Fadn caught
Ere and proceeded to "cart AL the
Junk indoors, because it looked like
vain before morning and the table
tops might warp.
And through the entertainment,
with hall Il plate OF lc" cream uncoh-
summed before her, little Mary " ood
1T "p;'lt with Htlb Truman ana
bought how This indeed was life, and
Of her mother ii a h'oonllt window
'ar away on Cobb hlll too weary and
heart heavy TO seek her bed.
l!"rh got to his feet, found his
hat under the table, effectively #qucl-
ohrl the riotous co~licl; and muir
"qurcd something about how he hoped
he could see her safe home. And
hey casually moved off III" iaWn
with the others and found them-
selves in deserted summer streets
where the young man RECALLED her
with items OF interest wherein his
own Ccco ntlici,ic' We're prominent.
He asked her if she supposed the
'I,,o black marc, alondAy-M Washing
'0uld possibly contract hoe boil HNI
when she said She couldn't imagine
such Il thing, he declared that Mon
y-Hashna had done tllat thing and
explained in great detail how Doe
Sawyer the veterinary had lanced it
and taken away Il "Guart' and could
She suppose YOU could take away Il
"qlaIt' rom the log Of Il mare a
mall and neat AZ Monday Washing"
Mary replied rather family that size
oould rot conceive OF such Il happ"n-
Ing which prompted Slug to move on
to the subject Of glandcrs.
Had she ever had II horse with
FLANDERS? No? Well, did she know
what 10 DO ii she should have Il horse
with clandcl.: No? Well, he would
tell her 50 that she might be pre-
pared for such an emergency and save
the animal from the dcath-violcnt at
the hand: Of the authorities. Which
he did. with much elaboration OF the
price the secret had cost him and the
'ntimatoa that he was diScloslng 1t
only because he took it she was a
friend and could be trusted,
He confidcd TO her that Jim Stilcs's
collie dog had mango and that moth
ing would tickle him more than tot
know that Jim'S dog had given it to
fussy little Miss SpalroW'S curly
allied pug. He said that if Frank
Morrow persisted i'll running his bay |
so fast between here and Barre that
he was going to break her wind ant |
wanted to know which she would pre-
fer: a mare with broken wind or d
horse with SPAWN? Finding at
length however, that Mary was not
prolific on the ailments Of horses and
dogs, he changed to athletics.
The longest way round being the
shortest way home, they dld not turn
IN nt Mrs. MalhcrS' cate when they |