Aunt Mary's Memoirs: XXIV

I sometimes feel that I was more or less favored, being the first girl after three boys: I was given music lessons, practicing on the big square piano in the cold parlor. Later that parlor served for our dancing and Sunday night parties when my brother Jim and his friends and my friends would get together. I would make a cake in the afternoon and with tea or cocoa, many a good time we had. Tom would occasionally stay and join us, but usually he was too grown up for our little affairs. In the summertime we would set a long table outside on the lawn and sometimes had as many as twenty or thirty young people present.