DAN : -- `` Do n't brag of it , Sis . He 's the man who was asked if somebody else said something in sincerity and old Joe said ` No , he said it in my cellar . ' '' CECILY : -- `` This is n't anybody in our family . It 's little Xavy Gautier who used to be hired with Uncle Roger . '' DAN : -- `` Uncle Roger sent him to fix a gate one day and scolded him because he did n't do it right , and Xavy was mad as hops and said ` How you ` spect me to fix dat gate ? I never learned jogerfy . ' '' CECILY , WITH AN ANGUISHED GLANCE AT DAN : -- `` This is Great-uncle Robert King . '' DAN : -- `` He 's been married four times . Do n't you think that 's often enough , dear great-aunty ? '' CECILY : -- '' -LRB- Dan !! -RRB- This is a nephew of Mr. Ambrose Marr 's . He lives out west and teaches school . '' DAN : -- `` Yes , and Uncle Roger says he does n't know enough not to sleep in a field with the gate open . '' CECILY : -- `` This is Miss Julia Stanley , who used to teach in Carlisle a few years ago . '' DAN : -- `` When she resigned the trustees had a meeting to see if they 'd ask her to stay and raise her supplement . Old Highland Sandy was alive then and he got up and said , ` If she for go let her for went . Perhaps she for marry . ' '' CECILY , WITH THE AIR OF A MARTYR : -- `` This is Mr. Layton , who used to travel around selling Bibles and hymn books and Talmage 's sermons . '' DAN : -- `` He was so thin Uncle Roger used to say he always mistook him for a crack in the atmosphere . One time he stayed here all night and went to prayer meeting and Mr. Marwood asked him to lead in prayer .
It had been raining ` most every day for three weeks , and it was just in haymaking time , and everybody thought the hay was going to be ruined , and old XXXXX got up and prayed that God would send gentle showers on the growing crops , and I heard Uncle Roger whisper to a fellow behind me , ` If somebody do n't choke him off we wo n't get the hay made this summer . ' ''
!! CECILY DAN King Layton Roger Stanley Xavy day night