Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-24
JUVENILES ENGAGED IN
 THEIR MFoHTIEsT CRUSADE

Sunday" says tl1e other half of the team, "we'H take run out through the country. I am tired of the force, I gave the raithfIl old Dobbin a feed Of gasoline. frightened up all the loese nuts and filled the tires and feed bags. And early in the morn ing We set out through the sylvan by ways. I always get poetical when we leave tic city Behind and get out into ] the rural districts where I can hear l the criekets and the frogs and tic old time sounds I heard when boy in the long, long ago.
 "WeIl, we drifted along and there was no dust and there was no con stant string Of autos rushing 1nadly By. Oh. sure, some cars ea1i pass us. ! but not when many when we're in a hurry and WE filled our lungs with the ozone and the sun sl1one down on our faces and I kept thinking all the while how nice it would be if the day would am going 10 be Back at the same old task and there will be six more days before I can get another day all to myself.
 And all of a sudden as was driv- ing along and dreaming along. the wife grabbed me by the arm and said: Took, So I looked and all I saw was a pigpen beside the road and little rails of the pen and so I swung over where we could look into the pen and
 there was 3. little pig in there and he
 wasn't a dirty pig, he was nice white and pink pig and the wife said Oh, isn,tD1e 3 little darling And I said, This little pig went to market.
 and this little pig stayed at home And tic little girl looked pp at. my wife
 pig is going to the New London
 County Fair and bring a blue ribbon
 home And the wife and I were so
 surprised that we did not know just
 what to say and so we both said We
 hope it will
 And then the father of the little
 Boy and the little girl came cut and
 invited us into the house. We went
 and he told us. that the little boy be-
 longed to the Boys Pig club and was
 the methods advised by the county
 agent. We said again that we hoped that he would get the blue rib bon and then my wife asked the little girl what -lle was going to do. but she
 was shy when it came to telling us about herself so her mother took the wife out into the pantry There on the shelves were some nice jars of berries and vegetables which the lit tie girl was going to send to the fair and the mother toIde us that twice a week the daughter baked bread for tIle mother. Later the girl and the of the bread the little girl baked spread with some jam she had put up and if was dne of the judges at ths contest she would sure get the prize. The wife told me that the pig in the pen had better manners than I had for I ate almost all the sandwiches myself.
 The little boy told us that there were over 1.e06 oeo boys and girls in tie country engaged in organized food production and food conserva ation work under direek supervision of the government specialists. It is the
 mi ghtiest Childrehs Crusade in the history of the world.
 Clubs of all kinds have been organ ized. There are corn clubs, potato clubs, home garden clubs. canning clubs, mother daughter clubs, poultry eluBs, pig clubs. baby beef clubs, bread cldDs. sewing clubs, handicraft clubs, sugar beet clubs. home cooking clubs, and many other kinds of clubs.
 And so we thanked them for the Eice time we had and promised to see them again and the wife said ''We will see you and the pig and the bread and the jars of goodies at the County Fair in September" l