`` Oh -- well , '' said Mary rather confusedly , `` they 're mostly awful cranky , I know . But Rosemary West could n't be very mean to any one . I tell you if your pa turns round and marries Emmeline Drew you 'll wish you 'd behaved yourselves better and not frightened Rosemary out of it . It 's awful that you 've got such a reputation that no decent woman 'll marry your pa on account of you . Of course , I know that half the yarns that are told about you ai n't true . But give a dog a bad name . Why , some folks are saying that it was Jerry and Carl that threw the stones through Mrs. Stimson 's window the other night when it was really them two Boyd boys . But I 'm afraid it was Carl that put the eel in old Mrs. Carr 's buggy , though I said at first I would n't believe it until I 'd better proof than old Kitty Alec 's word . I told Mrs. Elliott so right to her face . '' `` What did Carl do ? '' cried Faith . `` Well , they say -- now , mind , I 'm only telling you what people say -- so there 's no use in your blaming me for it -- that Carl and a lot of other boys were fishing eels over the bridge one evening last week . Mrs. Carr drove past in that old rattletrap buggy of hers with the open back . And Carl he just up and threw a big eel into the back . When poor old Mrs. Carr was driving up the hill by Ingleside that eel came squirming out between her feet . She thought it was a snake and she just give one awful screech and stood up and jumped clean over the wheels . The horse bolted , but it went home and no damage was done . But Mrs. Carr jarred her legs most terrible , and has had nervous spasms ever since whenever she thinks of the eel . Say , it was a rotten trick to play on the poor old soul . She 's a decent body , if she is as queer as Dick 's hat band . ''
XXXXX and Una looked at each other again .
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