Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

he looked as tho he always wore them.  He had to suffer some “guying” from us, but he stood it pretty well.  As we went up the street, we saw the whole Engel family coming down in full force, and as Fred didn’t wish to meet them in his new outfits, we turned down Rose, But alas for him!, Down High St. were coming Kinkie, his sister Ester and Ruth Bullard.  They laughed at him, for mere form.  Here I asked Kinkie for fifty cents for his tickets, but he flashed a dollar bill at me and had no change.

     We had not been at Bill’s long, when King arrived and after discussing “The Rivals” for a while, we started to play cards, at which we had lots of fun, King and Fred winning two games to our one.  Once a woman came to visit Mrs. Kirst, and caused a great excitement among us, and we were for showing the cards in our pockets, when Fred shut all the doors leading into the room and we were saved.  I was very reckless in my bidding and I know I worried Bill, but I didn’t care for I like to take risks.

     At six o’clock, we started to go home and prepare for church, but Bill prevailed upon us to stay to supper.  The Methodists are going to dedicate their new church to-night and we wanted to be on hand to contribute our gold. While we were waiting for supper, we measured our heights and arm reach.  According to our measure-