Angel At Troublesome Creek
“Delia said.
“Sounds almost like old times. A blue grass group’s supposed to play in the bandstand and there’ll be a costume parade in the park.”
“Wouldn’t miss it,” I said. I didn’t tell her I would be accompanied by her current suspect or that I was cooking his dinner tonight. That wouldn’t do at all.
The picnic is the annual Fourth of July celebration sponsored by the ‘I’ll Try Society,’ a group of citizens who began as sort of a literary club in the early part of the century. Most of them “i...nherited” their memberships, I think. Aunt Caroline belonged and so does Delia—as did their parents before them, and so on. The official name for the festivities is the Star Spangled Freedom Festival, but everybody just calls it the picnic.
“I hope you’re going to keep an eye out for that Kent person,” Delia said. “I don’t like him living so close. It’s just too, too convenient.”
“I’m sure he’ll be glad to move if we ask him,” I said.
“Joke if you will, Mary George, but I’m asking Fronie about him.MoreLess
“Sounds almost like old times. A blue grass group’s supposed to play in the bandstand and there’ll be a costume parade in the park.”
“Wouldn’t miss it,” I said. I didn’t tell her I would be accompanied by her current suspect or that I was cooking his dinner tonight. That wouldn’t do at all.
The picnic is the annual Fourth of July celebration sponsored by the ‘I’ll Try Society,’ a group of citizens who began as sort of a literary club in the early part of the century. Most of them “i...nherited” their memberships, I think. Aunt Caroline belonged and so does Delia—as did their parents before them, and so on. The official name for the festivities is the Star Spangled Freedom Festival, but everybody just calls it the picnic.
“I hope you’re going to keep an eye out for that Kent person,” Delia said. “I don’t like him living so close. It’s just too, too convenient.”
“I’m sure he’ll be glad to move if we ask him,” I said.
“Joke if you will, Mary George, but I’m asking Fronie about him.MoreLess
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