The principal came to the door, displeased at the noise; and Anna Brynildsen went and tattled, saying that I had pulled Kima Pirk’s hair. Well, it was true that I had clutched Kima by that red-brown hair of hers, but it was purely in self-defense, for Kima is much stronger than I.

At last the program was all written out. Here it is:

FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE GIOJA COMPANY

In the Judge’s Woodshed

Saturday, the 12th

1. Ja, vi elsker - Sung by Young Gioja

(That was Karsten.)

2. Declamation - - Miss Ella Gioja

(That was I.)

3. The Play, “Cousin Lottie.” Freely rendered from memory. By the whole Gioja Company.