Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

“Go ahead and play Bill; he won anyway” putting emphasis on the “won.”
    By this time however, the other members had arrived and supper was announced.  Laughing and talking we sat down to our royal feast.  We baked beans, beef-loaf, potatoes, scalloped corn, pear-butter, jelly, coffee salad and a tempting dessert.  Everything was so good that I ate a little too much, but the greatest reason that I got sick was the fact that I hadn’t been feeling well all day.  I was forced to be quiet a little while after supper and King – well there is no use repeating a sad tale; History generally repeats itself and so I’ll wait.  Everyone had eaten a little too much and we were all rather grouchy.  King + Bill played a checker game which Bill won, Day Smith and Bud worked math.  – yes Day worked math!  Kinkie read, while I tormented them all by reading aloud from a dictionary
  After this we played three sets of five hundred, first Day + Kinkie and Bill + I then Smith + Kinkie, Day + Myself, and lastly King + Smith and Bill + I, after which went home for the clock was striking one.[i]