They brought a eight pound loaf of maple sugar and two dozen eggs.
They did well. Then there wuz another woman who would walk her
little girl into the bedroom every few minutes, and wet her hair,
and comb it over, and curl it on her fingers. The child had a
little blue flannel dress on, with a long plain waist, and a long
skirt gethered on full all round. Her hair lay jest as smooth and
slick as glass all the time, but five times did she walk her off,
and go through with that performance. She brought ten yards of
factory cloth, and a good woollen petticoat for the old grandma.
She did first-rate.

And then there wuz another woman who stayed by the table most all
the evenin'. She would gently but firmly ask everybody who
brought anything, what the price of the article wuz -- and then
she would tackle the different women who come up to the table for
patterns. I do believe she got the pattern of every bask waist
there wuz there, and every mantilly.

And Abram Gee brought twenty-five loaves of bread -- of different
sizes, but all on 'em good. And he looked at Ardelia Tutt every
minute of the time. And Ardelia brought a lot of verses, --
"Stanzas on a Grandmother." I didn't think they would do Grandma
Smedley much good, and then on the other hand I didn't s'pose they
would hurt her any.

But we had a splendid good time after the things wuz all brought
in -- of course, bein' a board the fore part of the evenin' I
naturally had a harder time than I did the latter part, after I
had got over it.