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 Layton 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 , IN EXASPERATION : -- '' -LRB- Dan , shame on you for telling such irreverent stories . -RRB- This is Mrs. Alexander Scott of Markdale . She has been very sick for a long time . '' DAN : -- `` Uncle Roger says all that keeps her alive is that she 's scared her husband will marry again . '' CECILY : -- `` This is old Mr. James MacPherson who used to live behind the graveyard . '' DAN : -- `` He 's the man who told mother once that he always made his own iodine out of strong tea and baking soda . '' CECILY : -- `` This is Cousin Ebenezer MacPherson on the Markdale road . '' DAN : -- `` Great temperance man !
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