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Updated: May 5, 2025
The trouble is, if we should have heavy damask ones like the Bromwicks', it would be very dark in the winter, on account of the new, high building opposite. Now, we like as much light as we can get in the winter, so we have always waited till summer, thinking we would have some light muslin ones, or else of the new laces.
He wanted the latest and freshest languages, and at last came home one day with a list of "brand-new foreigners." They decided to borrow the Bromwicks' carryall to use, beside their own, for the first day, and Mr. Peterkin and Agamemnon drove into town to bring all the teachers out.
Peterkin determined on a chest of tea and a bag of coffee. So they decided to give the invitations to all. It might be a stormy evening and some would be prevented. The lady from Philadelphia and her daughters accepted. And it turned out a fair day, and more came than were expected. Ann Maria Bromwick had a friend staying with her, and brought her over, for the Bromwicks were opposite neighbors.
And so it was that the Peterkins had their Christmas-tree the day before, and on Christmas night could go and visit their neighbors. TWAS important to have a tea-party, as they had all been invited by everybody, the Bromwicks, the Tremletts, and the Gibbonses.
But where should they dine? where should they have their supper? and where was Mr. Peterkin's "quiet hour"? Elizabeth Eliza was frantic; the dining-room floor and table were covered with things. It was decided that Mr. and Mrs. Peterkin should dine at the Bromwicks, who had been most neighborly in their offers, and the rest should get something to eat at the baker's.
The little boys agreed to go over and spend the day on the Bromwicks' fence, and take an observation. "The trouble would be," said Elizabeth Eliza, "that cows walk about so, and the Bromwicks' yard is very large. Now she would be eating in one place, and then she would walk to another. She would not be eating all the time, a part of the time she would be chewing."
Peterkin hastened forward to shake hands with the lady from Philadelphia, saying: "Four Gibbons girls and Mary Osborne's aunt, that makes nineteen; and now" It made no difference what she said; for there was such a murmuring of talk that any words suited. And the lady from Philadelphia wanted to be introduced to the Bromwicks. It was delightful for the little boys.
Pin-wheels and rockets were contributed by Mr. Peterkin for the evening. According to a programme drawn up by Agamemnon and Solomon John, the reading of the Declaration of Independence was to take place in the morning, on the piazza, under the flags. The Bromwicks brought over their flag to hang over the door. "That is what the lady from Philadelphia meant," explained Elizabeth Eliza.
"I suppose," said Mrs. Peterkin, "that is the worst of having a cow, there might be a drought." Mr. Peterkin thought they might make some calculation from the quantity of grass in the lot. Solomon John suggested that measurements might be made by seeing how much grass the Bromwicks' cow, opposite them, eat up in a day.
The little boys thought they should like nothing better than to have some sticks, and keep the cow in one corner of the yard till the calculations were made. But Elizabeth Eliza was afraid the Bromwicks would not like it. "Of course, it would bring all the boys in the school about the place, and very likely they would make the cow angry." Agamemnon recalled that Mr.
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