"
DAN:--"Uncle Roger sent him to fix a gate one day and scolded him
because he didn't do it right, and Xavy was mad as hops and said
'How you 'spect me to fix dat gate? I never learned jogerfy.'"
CECILY, WITH AN ANGUISHED GLANCE AT DAN:--"This is Great-uncle
Robert King."
DAN:--"He's been married four times. Don't you think that's often
enough, dear great-aunty?"
CECILY:--"(Dan!!) This is a nephew of Mr. Ambrose Marr's. He
lives out west and teaches school."
DAN:--"Yes, and Uncle Roger says he doesn't know enough not to
sleep in a field with the gate open."
CECILY:--"This is Miss Julia Stanley, who used to teach in
Carlisle a few years ago."
DAN:--"When she resigned the trustees had a meeting to see if
they'd ask her to stay and raise her supplement. Old Highland
Sandy was alive then and he got up and said, 'If she for go let
her for went. Perhaps she for marry.'"
CECILY, WITH THE AIR OF A MARTYR:--"This is Mr. Layton, who used
to travel around selling Bibles and hymn books and Talmage's
sermons."
DAN:--"He was so thin Uncle Roger used to say he always mistook
him for a crack in the atmosphere. One time he stayed here all
night and went to prayer meeting and Mr. Marwood asked him to lead
in prayer. It had been raining 'most every day for three weeks,
and it was just in haymaking time, and everybody thought the hay
was going to be ruined, and old Layton got up and prayed that God
would send gentle showers on the growing crops, and I heard Uncle
Roger whisper to a fellow behind me, 'If somebody don't choke him
off we won't get the hay made this summer.
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