She is really our great-aunt. We have never seen her but we are
told she is very deaf and does not like children. So Aunt Janet
says we must make ourselves scarece when she comes.
Miss Cecily King has undertaken to fill with names a square of the
missionary quilt which the Mission Band is making. You pay five
cents to have your name embroidered in a corner, ten cents to have
it in the centre, and a quarter if you want it left off
altogether. (CECILY, INDIGNANTLY:--"That isn't the way at all.")
ADS.
WANTED--A remedy to make a fat boy thin. Address, "Patient
Sufferer, care of Our Magazine."
(FELIX, SOURLY:--"Sara Ray never got that up. I'll bet it was
Dan. He'd better stick to his own department.")
HOUSEHOLD DEPARTMENT
Mrs. Alexander King killed all her geese the twentieth of
December. We all helped pick them. We had one Christmas Day and
will have one every fortnight the rest of the winter.
The bread was sour last week because mother wouldn't take my
advice. I told her it was too warm for it in the corner behind
the stove.
Miss Felicity King invented a new recete for date cookies
recently, which everybody said were excelent. I am not going to
publish it though, because I don't want other people to find it
out.
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