`` How would ` Pull for the shore , sailor , pull for the shore , ' do ? '' asked Cecily . `` That never seemed to me a very religious hymn . '' `` But it does n't seem very appropriate to a funeral occasion either , '' said Felicity . `` I think ` Lead , kindly light , ' would be ever so much more suitable , '' suggested Sara Ray , `` and it is kind of soothing and melancholy too . '' `` We are not going to sing anything , '' said the Story Girl coldly . `` Do you want to make the affair ridiculous ? We will just fill up the grave quietly and put a flat stone over the top . '' `` It is n't much like my idea of a funeral , '' muttered Sara Ray discontentedly . `` Never mind , we 're going to have a real obituary about him in Our Magazine , '' whispered Cecily consolingly . `` And Peter is going to cut his name on top of the stone , '' added Felicity . `` Only we must n't let on to the grown-ups until it is done , because they might say it was n't right . '' We left the orchard , a sober little band , with the wind of the gray twilight blowing round us . Uncle Roger passed us at the gate . `` So the last sad obsequies are over ? '' he remarked with a grin . And we hated Uncle Roger . But we loved Uncle Blair because he said quietly , `` And so you 've buried your little comrade ? '' So much may depend on the way a thing is said . But not even Uncle Blair 's sympathy could take the sting out of the fact that there was no Paddy to get the froth that night at milking time .
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