box-social

Updated: May 15, 2025

Homestead girls came and went, and flirtations to break the monotony while they stayed were nothing unusual. But when Imbert paid $10 for the teacher's box at a box-social held at the schoolhouse one night, the old-timers gaped. It looked, they said, as if that little tenderfoot teacher had Imbert Miller lariated. It beat thunder how the western fellows did fall for eastern schoolmarms.

Edith Eudora Kohl - Land of the Burnt Thigh