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Birthday Tea Party for Marjorie

The Great Gildersleeve · November 9, 1949 · 29 min · 4,490 words

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The Kraft Foods Company, makers of Kraft's quality foods, presents Harold Perry as the Great Dilder's Leave. The Great Dilder's Leave is brought to you by the Kraft Foods Company, makers of the famous cheese food, Belvita.

Everybody goes for Belvita's rich yet mild cheddar cheese flavor in snacks, in sandwiches and in hot dishes. And Belvita, you know, helps supply valuable milk nutrients. And what's more, it's as digestible as milk itself.

That's why smart homemakers keep Velveeta on hand regularly. The spread of sliced and the melt for grand economical hot dishes. Tomorrow, get Velveeta, the cheese food of craft quality. There's one thing you can be sure of at the great Gilder's leaves house.

When Bertie the cook stands at the foot of the stairs in the morning and calls... ... by Golly, she gets action. The family is downstairs and busy at the breakfast table before you can say, past the parquet.

And that's where they are right now. The great man at the head of the table flanked on one side by his nephew Leroy and on the other by his niece, Marjorie. Leroy, for goodness' sake, you don't have to stab at your great fruit.

I'm getting a juice out. Well, watch it, Leroy. That last squirt nearly got me. Leroy, hold the spoon on the opposite side of the great fruit. Point it towards you. Oh yeah, then I get squirted.

No. That's table manners. Anki, why don't you make me eat like a human being after all? Leroy, sit up and eat right. You're annoying your sister. Yeah, well she's making things very rosy for me either.

Yes. Little brothers, ugh. They know attention to a margarine. That'll be a pleasure. Yeah, that'll be a pleasure. That's enough Leroy. I had a wonderful time at the dance last night, Anki. You did? It was out at the country club and the decorations were just out of this world all maple leaves and pumpkins and cornstalks and the band was

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