Feast of the Day, 3 May

I've been sleepy today - I stayed up late last night to finish making a list of some journal articles I want to borrow - and so for the last 90 minutes it's been an epic struggle to keep sitting in my chair and reading. I'm so glad I did, because I didn't have a Feast of the Day yet. But now I do. It's from The William Henry Letters, 1870, and it's a nice one because although the five boys who share William Henry's room at school aren't particularly nice to him, he's such a nice kid that he wants to share his birthday box with them anyway.
So here it is: "a table all spread out with a table-cloth that he had borrowed, and in the middle was a frosted cake with 'W.H.' on top done in red sugar. And close to that were some oranges, and a dish full of nuts, and as much as a pound of candy, and more figs than that, and four great cakes of maple-sugar, made on his father's land, as big as small johnny-cakes, and another kind of cake. And doughnuts."
The boys feel guilty for having been unfriendly to William Henry up 'til now, so they have to be urged to eat, and even then, they don't eat as much as they would have liked. And then some of them become friends with William Henry.