Murray got up and peered over . Then he whistled . He started to say something but remembered just in time and stopped . But he did give me a black look . Murray has a sneaking pride of name too , although he wo n't own up to it and laughs at Uncle Abimelech . I looked at the paper and began to laugh . We did look so funny , Murray and I , in that advertisement . It took up the whole page . At the top were our photos , half life-size , and underneath our names and addresses printed out in full . Below was the letter I had written to the Alloway Anodyne Liniment folks . It was a florid testimonial to the virtues of their liniment . I said that it had cured Murray 's sprain after all other remedies had failed and that , when I had been left a partial wreck from a very bad attack of rheumatic fever , the only thing that restored my joints and muscles to working order was Alloway 's Anodyne Liniment , and so on . It was all true enough , although I dare say old Aunt Sarah-from-the-Hollow 's rubbing had as much to do with the cures as the liniment . But that is neither here nor there . `` What does this mean , Prudence ? '' said Uncle Abimelech again . He was quivering with wrath , but I was as cool as a cucumber , and Murray stood like a graven image . `` Why , that , Uncle Abimelech , '' I said calmly , `` well , it just means one of my ways of making money . That liniment company pays for those testimonials and photos , you know . They gave me fifty dollars for the privilege of publishing them .
Fifty XXXXX will pay for books and tuition for Murray and me at Kentville Academy next winter , and Mrs. Tredgold is kind enough to say she will board me for what help I can give her around the house , and wait for Murray 's until he can earn it by teaching . ''
Abimelech Alloway Anodyne Murray Sarah-from-the-Hollow attack cucumber dollars left sprain