THE KITCHEN PARTY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 237, 7 October 1933, Page 3 (Supplement)

THE KITCHEN PARTY.

| (By Glen Nicholson, "Slc.vo," 20. St. Luke's IJoad, Mount Albert, age !).) "What was that?" .Tack sat up in lied, with a yawn. Looking, up, he saw the nursery poker walking towards tlie door, muttering, '"J sluill he late, I shall be late." Jack's curiosity overcame him. and he followed the poker downstairs to the kitchen. Then the poker knocked at the door and a, big black pot opened it and said, "You are late. I thought you would be." , '"I aim no-try," answered the poker. "They used me to poke the nursery lire and, of course, I couldn't come to a party red-hot. Now, cotild If" "No," answered the pot rather pettishly. "But come along, we're waiting for you." The poker entered, to be met by three other occupants of the kitchen —a red sugar basin, a kettle and a cream jug. "Now," said the pot, banging the table with his list, "we shall have tea, and it; shall consist of bread and butter and —" Just then .Tack sneezed and the whole kitchen was in a hubbub. There was such a bustle that the cream jug got smashed. In the morning Jack's mother could not make out why her cream jug was broken. "1 think I can tell you," said Jack, and related the story of the party. "Nonsense," .was the only answer he got, so Jack left it at that.