Page 42 put the kids on display. We would speak our verse or act in a play so the grown folks could see what progress we were making. Afterward would be a box or pie social. The woman and girls would bring lunch in a box and the men and boys would bid on them. The highest bid getting the box and eating lunch with it’s owner. Some of the young men in the community would go as high as $10.00 on a box if they thought a certain young lady had brought it. Sometimes this worked and again the girls might work up a deal among themselves and carry in some one else’s box and the flowering young man would find he had bought some old lady’s lunch or a your school girls. The socials were fun and all seemed to enjoy them. After Halloween it would soon be thanksgiving. If we didn’t go some place on thanksgiving we would have some neighbor family to our place. And so the four seasons would appear and then disappear. |