Whiskers swallowed it all, and kept saying 'Very
good--very good' until Ella thought that die she would trying to keep a
straight face. When the teacher came in, Whiskers complimented her on
the splendid understanding the children had of their lesson and said he
meant to tell the trustees what a jewel they had. It was 'very unusual,'
he said, to find a fourth class who could answer up so prompt when it
came to explaining what words meant. He went off beaming. But Ella told
me this as a great secret, Mrs. Dr. dear, and we must keep it as such,
for the sake of the Lowbridge Road teacher. It would likely be the ruin
of her chances of keeping the school if Whiskers should ever find out
how he had been bamboozled."
Mary Vance came up to Ingleside that same afternoon to tell them that
Miller Douglas, who had been wounded when the Canadians took Hill 70,
had had to have his leg amputated. The Ingleside folk sympathized with
Mary, whose zeal and patrotism had taken some time to kindle but now
burned with a glow as steady and bright as any one's.
"Some folks have been twitting me about having a husband with only one
leg. But," said Mary, rising to a lofty height, "I would rather Miller
with only one leg than any other man in the world with a dozen--
unless," she added as an after-thought, "unless it was Lloyd George.
Well, I must be going. I thought you'd be interested in hearing about
Miller so I ran up from the store, but I must hustle home for I promised
Luke MacAllister I'd help him build his grain stack this evening.
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