Show va 7 r on yes indeed we would have y YES had bad a perfectly love lovely 17 time at our house on thanksgiving it if it been for an accident I 1 that happened at the dinner table at the time I 1 felt terribly misanthropic about it and really had a very bad bovay quart dour tor for a minute but I 1 soon eoon consoled myself by recalling dear robert burns precious words the best laid plans ot of mico and men gang bide we only had a small dinner party just the Boll varda and woods sister and her husband and their little boy harold did you ever meet woods sister my dear between you and I 1 kemem remember her this Is strictly sotto voce she Is very ignorant and snobbish and such euch a talker wood himself acknowledges ow ledges that she would surely explode it if she ever got tetanus and ever since she went abroad she holds her heads bead as high as marle marie antoinette going to the moulin rouge and talks nothing but paris a perfect parricide I 1 call herl her and ignorant why do you know she brought me back a little statuesque of venus from italy and apologized for its broken arms by telling me it was that way the diagonal was found ha ha hat ha I 1 could scarcely retain my specific gravity I 1 was so amused she bhe know that mickey angelo had bad carved it that way on oil purpose to make it look old and debilitated because the romana dearly loved antique things I 1 dont blame them either I 1 do myself dont you I 1 have a colonial monogamy antimacassar BOO years old with all the knobs broken oft off I 1 had a high noon dinner at one when jocund day stands tipsy on the misty mountain t top a PP you know as dear old will would say eay it was a strict new england dinner of course in honor of the day and woods ancestors 1 I am an F F V myself and before it was served we each agreed to tell the one thing we were e most thankful tor for wood was first ile he said words express its his grateful tude because he be have to pay an in come tax poor ile he staid up all the night before figuring out what he be would have to pay day at the source lie was wan terribly puzzled at first and wanted me to help him but I 1 was too busy assisting nora to make the ot stuffing uffing he know whether td multiply the least common multiple by the fourth dimension and add 1 per cent of 0 the remainder or extricate the cubernot cube root of the net proceeds and square the result one thing be said was certain hed just like to get square once with the democrats Democrat al my aly but he was tickled when he came upstairs the next morning to tell me he be had bad escaped after all but he bald it was waa a very close shave I 1 dont know whether to tell I 1 was thankful because I 1 had been elected pre pr eslit slat or 0 my suffrage club or because I 1 lad such a wonderful child as gwendolyn but I 1 finally ceal ld d to intimate Cl cordelia ordella the mother of the so soi ami i holay my jewel child besides I 1 am far too modest to boast of myself so I 1 had gwendolyn reada rend a composition on the first thanksgiving in watch she told all about the tha hardships of tho the poor pilgrims who came over 11 tho the maybell with lord baltimore to PI mouth and nw ow they sat down to their first din per of homing and codfish balls and gave thanks because they been scalped scalded or burned as wK elles then wood had her bind every state in the union and tell what time it Is in the scandalous peninsula when it Is six here then she showed all of her beautiful sketches and played several duets on the piano sho she Is mr favorite pupil and he often tells tella roe that she will bo be a perfect tyro when she grows grow a U up IM just then the the soule soul the dinner bell rang and we wa ind bad I 1 to evi evade dethe the teat of the program I 1 was waa glad too because the Boli varde looked awfully bored hen woods wooda sister asked harold to recite my my how she does doea loje love to show him off I 1 we had a lovely meal ineal nora certainly is a fine took cook even it if she Is irish I 1 bad bermie her mix the mincemeat with strong tea and cans cane pepper instead of wicked things thing alike like elder and brandy and the pies were delicious everything was narn agra quit talking about her fann cooking that day yet one trouble with the irish they are so eo boast boastful full I 1 firmly believe it Is the reason that julius caesar when he bo conquered ireland christened it erin go ja brag rag dont you beg pardon well tho the dinner had passed off beautifully wood had bad kept the table in a roar you know what a delightful bon mot he la Is and had carved the turkey just like a surgeon but first I 1 must tell you about harold the little wretch instead of keeli peeling ng his banana into strips and laying them carefully on the table like gwendolyn turned his skin back and after eating the fruit out of it in two bites threw wunder it under the table ile he said afterwards it slipped off hla his plate at any rate it tell fell right at woods feet poor wood I 1 ile ha had bad on some new shoes without any heels beels he bo want tobay to buy them in the first place but I 1 begged him to because I 1 love him to be the observed of all observers gra and have a moldy form as my beloved shakespeare would 0 say ay and he be gasn wasn used to them so BO that when he got up to leave the table he be slipped on tho the ours oura Is an extension table with ball gearing rollers and when he grasped the edge of it to save himself from falling fall lne alas alas it parted in the middle and all the combustibles of the dinner were participated onto the floor and wood fell backwards on oa top of oc his chair with the most violent emphasis poor boyl boy ile he had been telling a baseball story and had been using such shocking paraphrases as jammed the cushion swatted the sphere clattered acro across ss tho the pan and dented the platter dont you think it was a dreadful coincidence that lust just as he said platter down went the turkey oh ob dearl dear I 1 just cant help but feel someway that perhaps the whole thing was vas a nemesis on him for using such dreadful undefiled led slang well he be paid dearly for it poor fellow im afraid it will bo be weeks before hla his solar system will bo be entirely renovated when we vie him that day we found that his parallax was dreadfully bruised bruise di and that ho he had a severe attack of nos nostalgia talala I 1 declare I 1 thought his bis dear nose would never never stop bleed bleedings yes we all partook of some injury mrs Dol Vol lyard spoken booken to me since because her now new scrape de seln skirt was waa ruined that thai Is all but farid farold old and hla his mother it seems like the very ironing of fato fate that they were the he only ones present who escaped from rom damage dont you think so |