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     eliminated, and the remaining four 
     
     players became two teams of two each. 
     
     The “play-off" for the prize then began. 
     
     The two winners at this level each 
     
     received either a can of Clark’s beans, 
     
     corn, cherries, peaches, plums, or a 
     
     package of soda crackers. Mid-way 
     
     through the evening, a lunch of 
     
     sandwiches and sweets was served, along 
     
     with a “good cup of tea.” Helen whipped 
     
     up the lunch when she returned home late 
     
     in the evening from her daily work at the 
     
     store. More card games followed. 
     
    

    
     Late on a winter’s afternoon our 
     
     parents, Neil and Matilda, often decided 
     
     to have a little party. They cleared one 
     
     of the two rooms off the kitchen of its 
     
     sparse furnishings and engaged a couple 
     
     of fiddlers from the immediate 
     
     neighborhood to provide the music. The