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Show I THE FAMILY REUNION The open season for family reunions is at hand. Aunt Lucy ha9 baked several editions of her spice cake, Ma has ironed out sisters newest brock and tied on her big pink sash, not -o speak of washing brother's neck an' ears and making him put on the Sunday shoes that squeak 60 Well filled baskets are being tucked with the kids, into the back scat. Dad has filled up the gas tank, and given 'er a quart of oil. and the folks, bless 'em. are on the way The joyful meeting at the old fair grounds is the herald for all kinds of hilarity, reminiscences and casual inspecuo of the relations. Uncle William, who is 90, insists on showng that he can dance as well as the youngest there, by cracky Here is Cousin -Mathilda, who has been twice to Yurrup, wearing the same black alpaca that she wore when she visited Buckingham palace: Out of the 75 to 200 people present, only two or three of the aged uncles and aunts who used to widen the children's eyes with civil war tales, are left. There is a new crop of family heroes now, one of them, Cousin Al, with a croix de guerre, though he doesn't wear it. And so the family foregathers, in a thousand communities, large and small, and so again it scatters. And the aging members nod their heads and sagely say, with a great, inclusive satisfaction "Blood is thicker than water, after all." |