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Show 131 the sugar factory a few miles from home. Vaughn got her shoes so soaked in syrup that one cold morning she dropped one of them and broke it. We sold Liberty Bonds in rallies and made donations far above our means. Sam Henrie, a comparative newcomer in town, was the delight of everybody. He bit on every practical joke dangled before newcomers. At one party we played the "Barnyard Game, " in which a prize was offered the person who could best mimic the barnyard creature whose name had been whispered in his ears. This was advertized to be a group enterprise and a large ring of chairs was formed around the hall. On call, several sheep came up from their chairs and uttered quavering bleats, cows stood up and moo'ed, horses neighed. Then came the call for the hens to cackle. Will Owens and Sam Henrie had been selected for the joke. Will stood modestly by his chair and cackled, but saw the egg in his chair before he sat down, quietly slipped it into his pocket. Sam made a production of his part. He went into the middle of the floor, scratched henlike with his feet and cluck-cluck-te-dackited very realistically. When he got back to his chair and found he had laid an egg it was too late to chuck it into his pocket. Mama saw both eggs, because she was one of the perpetrators of the crime. Sam's ability to lay eggs brought down the house, but when they were through laughing he started auctioning his egg. Somebody bought it for the war effort and re-auctioned it. That egg brought in $140 before the evening was over. Mama was cited by the Government for her participation in this patriotic cause, and we settled down for the second and third of the |