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“Look what I got!”

“Look what I got!”

“Look at mine!”

The three ladies held up gifts which they had saved to open at table It was the Fourth of July, and on any day of the year that was in any way special they pulled the ribbons off gifts and cried, Oh, you shouldn’t have done it! They even got gifts on Meton’s, Jefferson’s, Columbus Day, Friday the Thirteenth It was quite a joke Once they got gifts on a day that wasn’t any kind of day at all, with notes printed on the: JUST BECAUSE IT’S MONDAY! They talked about that particular incident for six months after

Now there was a crisp rattling as they cut the ribbons with their fingernails which flashed red, and far away at the end of the tunnel of people sat Miss Leonora Welkes, still inching at her food, but slowing down until at last her fork caifts exposed to the crystalline light

“Perfume! With Old Glory on the box!”

“Bath powder, in the shape of a pinwheel!”

“Candy, done up in ten-inch salutes!”

Everyone said how nice it was

Miss Leonora Welkes said, “Oh, how nice that is”

A moment later, Miss Welkes said, “I’m all done It was a fine meal”

“Don’t you want any dessert?” asked Grandma

“I’lided from the room

“S the opened perfume under the men’s noses

“Ah!” Said everyone