.Honey, IVIaple Sugar and Syriip, fJellies^, 

 Canned I*^rnits and A-V^ines. 



The Committee in this department found entries in each of 

 the above named articles, and in all between twenty and thirty 

 entries. 



We could not l)e otherwise than greatly delighted in having 

 assigned to us as a matter of duty such delightful subjects fji" 

 our attention as Honey, Maple sugar, Jellies, Canned Fruits and 

 Wines. How well calculated to make the salivary glands do 

 double duty, only in anticipation ! We need not say that we 

 entered upon the task with cheerful alacrity. 



As the Committee were intently fixing their Avondering gaze 

 upon the long row of cans of Fruit, and Jelly, and Syrup, and 

 and bottles of Wine, arranged in such tempting array, and were 

 gravely discussing the methods which Ave should pursue in de- 

 ciding upon the merits of each, we were taken somewhat aback 

 by some member of the Committee unfortunately observing 

 written on some of the most tempting looking bottles and cans, 

 *^not to be opened !" Just at this juncture, and to increase our 

 discomforture, an officer of the Society informed us that the 

 ( 'ommittee Avould make their decisions without opening the 

 packages. What a blasting of our anticipations ! We could 

 yield without a murmer, the Maple Sugar and the Honey, sweet 

 as they are, and the canned fruit and jellies, but what a bitter 

 disappointment not to taste a single drop of the wine ! We 

 sought to calm our troubled spirit by reasoning upon the mat- 

 ter, but this l)ut added fuel to the flame. 



That imperative order, ''No packages to be opened !" How 

 suspicious, thought we. What a want of confidence in the 

 Committee lest they should be overcome by the temptation, and 

 take a little too much ! How strict and rigid with us, while 

 other Committees, that have served in years past, have taken 



