Transvestia

the prime characteristic of small towns, the town banker made a telephone call at precisely 8:20 the following morning. By 9:15, the Adult Bible Classes, the Fireman's Auxilliary, and the Eastern Star were in action. At 11:00 a.m., Mr. Olson, the janitor, was setting up chairs in the high school auditorium, Shortly after noon, the Boy Scouts joined him. two o'clock, despite the eighty-plus degree heat, every oven in town was lighted, putting delicious shades of brown atop hams, cakes, pies, cookies, while in certain other quarters, tender young chickens were receiving tender ministrations from skillful, flour-dabbed hands.

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By three-thirty, Abel the jeweler had finished engraving the watch and at four o'clock, Hohenhadel the printer was distributing the type from the scroll which was drying while Mrs. H. prepared the leatherette cover (from stock leftover from graduation).

At five o'clock, every business in town closed and everyone rushed for home and bathtubs and starch- ed white shirts while youngsters were threatened into an unnatural porch-quietness by promises of prohib- ition of fireworks on Fourth-of-July if so much as one kneecap was dirtied.

At six-thirty, the young man was led onto the grounds of the high school to the long white-covered tables behind the gym and his hand was alternately shaken gravely and filled with heaping plates of chicken and other goodies. The young man was pro- perly shy and a little embarassed, feeling somewhat of an intruder and still not comprehending the nature of the atmosphere of goodwill.

What a good place to be! he thought to himself. At seven-thirty, the school bell rang once and every- one mysteriously disappeared into the gymnasium while the young man was detained by the banker who was also ex-officio the President of the Town Council. After a moment or two, they entered the door to the

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