Pryor
know. She told me she had just gloated over the sight of those cows
pasturing on his wheat. She felt it served him exactly right. But
presently she reflected that the wheat-crop was a matter of great
importance and that 'save and serve' meant that those cows must be
routed out as much as it meant anything. So she went down and phoned
over to Whiskers about the matter. All the thanks she got was that he
said something queer right out to her. She is not prepared to state that
it was actually swearing for you cannot be sure just what you hear over
the phone; but she has her own opinion, and so have I, but I will not
express it for here comes Mr. Meredith, and Whiskers is one of his
elders, so we must be discreet."
"Are you looking for the new star?" asked Mr. Meredith, joining Miss
Oliver and Rilla, who were standing among the blossoming potatoes gazing
skyward.
"Yes--we have found it--see, it is just above the tip of the tallest
old pine."
"It's wonderful to be looking at something that happened three thousand
years ago, isn't it?" said Rilla. "That is when astronomers think the
collision took place which produced this new star. It makes me feel
horribly insignificant," she added under her breath.
"Even this event cannot dwarf into what may be the proper perspective in
star systems the fact that the Germans are again only one leap from
Paris," said Gertrude restlessly.
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