C-l-y . I am not sure , but I think they are things that are left over . -LRB- CECILY , WONDERINGLY : -- `` I do n't see why that was put among the funny paragraphs . Should n't it have gone in the General Information department ? '' -RRB- Old Mr. McIntyre 's son on the Markdale Road had been very sick for several years and somebody was sympathizing with him because his son was going to die . `` Oh , '' Mr. McIntyre said , quite easy , `` he might as weel be awa ' . He 's only retarding buzziness . '' FELIX KING . GENERAL INFORMATION BUREAU P-t-r . What kind of people live in uninhabited places ? Ans. : Cannibals , likely . FELIX KING . -LSB- Footnote 1 : The obituary was written by Mr. Felix King , but the two lines of poetry were composed by Miss Sara Ray . -RSB- CHAPTER XXXII . OUR LAST EVENING TOGETHER IT was the evening before the day on which the Story Girl and Uncle Blair were to leave us , and we were keeping our last tryst together in the orchard where we had spent so many happy hours . We had made a pilgrimage to all the old haunts -- the hill field , the spruce wood , the dairy , Grandfather King 's willow , the Pulpit Stone , Pat 's grave , and Uncle Stephen 's Walk ; and now we foregathered in the sere grasses about the old well and feasted on the little jam turnovers Felicity had made that day specially for the occasion . `` I wonder if we 'll ever all be together again , '' sighed Cecily . `` I wonder when I 'll get jam turnovers like this again , '' said the Story Girl , trying to be gay but not making much of a success of it . `` If Paris was n't so far away I could send you a box of nice things now and then , '' said Felicity forlornly , `` but I suppose there 's no use thinking of that . Dear knows what they 'll give you to eat over there . ''
`` Oh , the French have the reputation of being the best cooks in the world , '' rejoined the Story Girl , `` but I know they ca n't beat your jam XXXXX and plum puffs , Felicity .
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