He never tasted rum in his life . He took the measles when he was forty-five and was crazy as a loon with them , and the doctor ordered them to give him a dose of brandy . When he swallowed it he looked up and says , solemn as an owl , ` Give it to me oftener and more at a time . ' '' CECILY , IMPLORINGLY : -- '' -LRB- Dan , do stop . You make me so nervous I do n't know what I 'm doing . -RRB- This is Mr. Lemuel Goodridge . He is a minister . '' DAN : -- `` You ought to see his mouth . Uncle Roger says the drawing string has fell out of it . It just hangs loose -- so fashion . '' Dan , whose own mouth was far from being beautiful , here gave an imitation of the Rev. Lemuel 's , to the utter undoing of Peter , Felix , and myself . Our wild guffaws of laughter penetrated even Great-aunt Eliza 's deafness , and she glanced up with a startled face . What we would have done I do not know had not Felicity at that moment appeared in the doorway with panic-stricken eyes and exclaimed , `` Cecily , come here for a moment . '' Cecily , glad of even a temporary respite , fled to the kitchen and we heard her demanding what was the matter . `` Matter ! '' exclaimed Felicity , tragically . `` Matter enough ! Some of you left a soup plate with molasses in it on the pantry table and Pat got into it and what do you think ? He went into the spare room and walked all over Aunt Eliza 's things on the bed . You can see his tracks plain as plain .
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