It was too good fun to give up . For the next half-hour the dialogue ran after this fashion , while Peter and Felix and I , and even the Story Girl , suffered agonies trying to smother our bursts of laughter -- for Great-aunt Eliza could see if she could n't hear : CECILY , SHOUTING : -- `` That is Mr. Joseph Elliott of Markdale , a second cousin of mother 's . '' 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 . ''
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