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Updated: June 6, 2025
She did not know what a barbecue might be, but it sounded wild and jolly. "What a long stretch of mud-puddle right here by the tailings," said Kyzie. Nate laughed. "It is a damp spot, that's a fact!" They all wondered what he was laughing at. "I guess there used to be water here once," said Jimmy at a venture. "There's water here now standing round in spots. And, why, it's fishes!"
Kyzie, though she may have feared it vaguely all along, was taken entirely by surprise, and did what do you think? As quick as a flash, without waiting for a second thought, she turned and jumped out of the window! Next moment, remembering the children, she screamed for them to follow her, and they poured out of the house, some by the window, some by the door, all shrieking like mad.
Edith could hardly speak for laughing; and her mother and Kyzie did not wonder when they beheld the figure that little Bab had made of herself, by a new style of dressing her hair. The two little girls were, as I have told you, as different as possible, but had an intense desire to look "just alike"; and when they tried their best the result was very funny.
"We've found the watch, we've found the watch!" "Yes," said Aunt Vi; "but what a wreck it is! Your papa will have to spend a deal of money in repairing it." "Too bad!" said Lucy, "I 'spect 'twould cost him cheaper to buy a new one." "'Twouldn't cost him so much; that's what you mean," corrected Jimmy. "But I'm going to pay for mending it anyway." "How can you?" asked Kyzie.
"See here," said Joe Rolfe, twitching off his hat again very respectfully, "Are you going to keep school in the schoolhouse? I wish you would!" At this remarkable speech Jimmy and Edith fell to laughing; but Kyzie only blushed a little, and smiled. How very grown-up she must seem to Joe if he could think of her as a teacher!
"And they had a school last summer," went on Kyzie, resolutely. "A young girl taught it who boarded where we do. Mr. Templeton said she did it for fun." "Indeed!" "But they didn't like her a bit. I could teach as well as she did anyway, mamma, for she just went around the room boxing their ears." "Is it possible, Katharine?" Mrs. Dunlee was serious enough now.
Oh, Bab, let's you and I bring some dishes up here and keep house! Here's a cupboard right in the wall." "I guess it's Mother Hubbard's cupboard, it looks bare enough. Just a table in the room and one old chair," exclaimed Edith. "I'm glad we came in, though," said Kyzie. "Isn't it beautiful to stand in the door and look down, down, and see Castle Cliff right at your feet?
When at last everybody was "settled for life," Kyzie did not know what to do next. "What would Miss Prince do? Why she would read in the Bible. I forgot that." The new teacher took her stand on the platform behind the desk, opened her Bible, and read aloud the twenty-third Psalm. Her voice shook, partly from fright, partly from trying so hard not to laugh. But she did not even smile far from it.
But for Kyzie and Edith and Jimmy the good times had begun already. The five Dunlees entered the house, little Eddo clinging fast to Jimmum's forefinger. They passed an old lady who sat on the veranda knitting. She gazed after them through her spectacles, and said to Mr. Templeton in a tone of inquiry: "Boarders?"
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