unanimously voted that the privileges of the club be denied
Brother Voltaire for the period of one year, and that the name of
Priscilla Kennicott be stricken from the list of non-resident
members of heaven.



CHAPTER FOUR

THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH

In the Manner of F. Scott Fitzgerald

This story occurs under the blue skies and bluer laws of Puritan
New England, in the days when religion was still taken seriously
by a great many people, and in the town of Plymouth where the
"Mayflower", having ploughed its platitudinous way from Holland,
had landed its precious cargo of pious Right Thinkers, moral
Gentlemen of God, and--Priscilla.

Priscilla was--well, Priscilla had yellow hair. In a later
generation, in a 1921 June, if she had toddled by at a country
club dance you would have noticed first of all that glorious mass
of bobbed corn-colored locks. You would, then, perhaps, have
glanced idly at her face, and suddenly said "Oh my gosh!" The
next moment you would have clutched the nearest stag and hissed,
"Quick--yellow hair--silver dress--oh Judas!" You would then
have been introduced, and after dancing nine feet you would have
been cut in on by another panting stag. In those nine delirious
feet you would have become completely dazed by one of the