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.