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"But," said he, "I have
always been agin permiscuous dancing."
"But we ain't permiscuous," said Tilly James. "We are all friends and
neighbors."
"Most all," said Strout; but his remark was unnoticed by all excepting
Quincy.
"Well, under the circumstances," concluded the Deacon, "I don't object
to your finishing up with an old-fashioned reel, and mother and me will
jine in with you, so as to countenance the perceedings."
The call was now made for supper. A procession was again formed, each
gentleman taking the lady who had accompanied him to the party. They all
filed into the dining-room and took their places around the long table.
The most of them looked at its contents with surprise and delight.
Instead of seeing only home-made cakes, and pies, and dishes of nuts,
and raisins, and apples, that they had expected, occupying the centre
of the table, they gazed upon a large frosted cake, in the centre of
which arose what resembled the spire of a church, made of sugar and
adorned with small American flags and streamers made of various colored
silk ribbons.


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