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they made a merry jest of it and laid
aside their overcoats, caps and mufflers.
Mr Lerush began to draw the fiddle bow
and I cleared away the chairs and
all other movable obstacles and Geo
and Miss Foley danced a whirlagig
but Bernard and Florence made no
response and they worried out 2 long
hours and at last concluded to go home.
I politely said I would invite them
into the parlor but we had not yet
set up our coal stove and the rooms
excepting the kitchen were very cold to
invite guest into for an evening's entertainment
but though the kitchen was warm and
cozzy it was hardly the place for a party
as over head were suspended baskets
of pop corn, dried apples and pendant
strings of yellow pumpking drying
on the poles and long traces of pop
corn hanging on the wall besides two
bags of feathers &c &c. at last they took their
departure and I came to understand that my surprise