`` His name was Ebenezer , you know -- '' `` Is it any wonder he was thin and stunted looking ? '' said Dan . `` Ebenezer is just as nice a name as Daniel , '' said Felicity . `` Do you REALLY think so , my angel ? '' inquired Dan , in honey-sweet tones . `` Go on . Remember your second resolution , '' I whispered to the Story Girl , who was stalking along with an outraged expression . The Story Girl swallowed something and went on . `` Cousin Ebenezer had a horror of borrowing . He thought it was simply a dreadful disgrace to borrow ANYTHING . Well , you know he and Cousin Mattie used to live in Carlisle , where the Rays now live . This was when Grandfather King was alive . One day Cousin Ebenezer came up the hill and into the kitchen where all the family were . Uncle Roger said he looked as if he had been stealing sheep . He sat for a whole hour in the kitchen and hardly spoke a word , but just looked miserable . At last he got up and said in a desperate sort of way , ` Uncle Abraham , can I speak with you in private for a minute ? ' ` Oh , certainly , ' said grandfather , and took him into the parlour . Cousin Ebenezer shut the door , looked all around him and then said imploringly , ` MORE PRIVATE STILL . ' So grandfather took him into the spare room and shut that door . He was getting frightened .
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