Half cover them, and see how shut in you will feel; and how curious you will be to know what is going on beside you.

Suppose a girl saw a mouse with her eyes half covered, wouldn't she run ?" Everybody laughed, and the president asked some one to tell him who invented blinders.
"An English nobleman," shouted a boy, "who had a wall-eyed horse! He wanted to cover up the defect, and I think it is a great shame that all the American horses have to suffer because that English one had an ugly eye." "So do I," said the president.

"Three groans for blinders, boys." And the children in the room made three dreadful noises away down in their throats.

Then they had another good laugh, and the president became sober again.

"Seven more minutes," he said; "this meeting has got to be let out at five sharp." A tall girl at the back of the room rose, and said: "My little cousin has two stories that she would like to tell the band." "Very well," said the president; "bring her right along." The big girl came forward, leading a tiny child that she placed in front of the boys and girls.