How could ANYBODY eat ? And how could they all talk gaily as they were doing ? There was mother , with her shining eyes and pink cheeks . SHE did n't know her son had to fight next day . Would she be so gay if she knew , Walter wondered darkly . Jem had taken Susan 's picture with his new camera and the result was passed around the table and Susan was terribly indignant over it . `` I am no beauty , Mrs. Dr. dear , and well I know it , and have always known it , '' she said in an aggrieved tone , `` but that I am as ugly as that picture makes me out I will never , no , never believe . '' Jem laughed over this and Anne laughed again with him . Walter could n't endure it . He got up and fled to his room . `` That child has got something on his mind , Mrs. Dr. dear , '' said Susan . `` He has et next to nothing . Do you suppose he is plotting another poem ? '' Poor Walter was very far removed in spirit from the starry realms of poesy just then . He propped his elbow on his open window-sill and leaned his head drearily on his hands . `` Come on down to the shore , Walter , '' cried Jem , busting in . `` The boys are going to burn the sand-hill grass to-night . Father says we can go . Come on . '' At any other time Walter would have been delighted .
He gloried in the burning of the sand-hill XXXXX .
SHE child day eyes grass nothing poem son table time