`` You are not a bit refined , '' commented Felicity . `` Not a morsel , my love , '' grinned Dan . `` You make me think of a story I heard Uncle Roger telling about Cousin Annetta King , '' said the Story Girl . `` Great-uncle Jeremiah King used to live where Uncle Roger lives now , when Grandfather King was alive and Uncle Roger was a boy . In those days it was thought rather coarse for a young lady to have too hearty an appetite , and she was more admired if she was delicate about what she ate . Cousin Annetta set out to be very refined indeed . She pretended to have no appetite at all . One afternoon she was invited to tea at Grandfather King 's when they had some special company -- people from Charlottetown . Cousin Annetta said she could hardly eat anything . ` You know , Uncle Abraham , ' she said , in a very affected , fine-young-lady voice , ' I really hardly eat enough to keep a bird alive . Mother says she wonders how I continue to exist . ' And she picked and pecked until Grandfather King declared he would like to throw something at her . After tea Cousin Annetta went home , and just about dark Grandfather King went over to Uncle Jeremiah 's on an errand . As he passed the open , lighted pantry window he happened to glance in , and what do you think he saw ? Delicate Cousin Annetta standing at the dresser , with a big loaf of bread beside her and a big platterful of cold , boiled pork in front of her ; and Annetta was hacking off great chunks , like Dan there , and gobbling them down as if she was starving . Grandfather King could n't resist the temptation . He stepped up to the window and said , ` I 'm glad your appetite has come back to you , Annetta . Your mother need n't worry about your continuing to exist as long as you can tuck away fat , salt pork in that fashion . ' `` Cousin Annetta never forgave him , but she never pretended to be delicate again . '' `` The Jews do n't believe in eating pork , '' said Peter .
`` I 'm glad I 'm not a Jew and I guess XXXXX Annetta was too , '' said Dan .
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