Perhaps that was why her voice and words had such a charm , conveying to the listeners ' perception such fine shadings of meaning and tint and music . `` Well , let 's go and have something to eat , '' suggested Dan . `` What colour is eating , Sara ? '' `` Golden brown , just the colour of a molasses cooky , '' laughed the Story Girl . We sat on the ferny bank of the pool and ate of the generous basket Aunt Janet had provided , with appetites sharpened by the keen spring air and our wilderness rovings . Felicity had made some very nice sandwiches of ham which we all appreciated except Dan , who declared he did n't like things minced up and dug out of the basket a chunk of boiled pork which he proceeded to saw up with a jack-knife and devour with gusto . `` I told ma to put this in for me . There 's some CHEW to it , '' he said . `` You are not a bit refined , '' commented Felicity . `` Not a morsel , my love , '' grinned Dan . `` You make me think of a story I heard Uncle Roger telling about Cousin Annetta King , '' said the Story Girl . `` Great-uncle Jeremiah King used to live where Uncle Roger lives now , when Grandfather King was alive and Uncle Roger was a boy . In those days it was thought rather coarse for a young lady to have too hearty an appetite , and she was more admired if she was delicate about what she ate . Cousin Annetta set out to be very refined indeed . She pretended to have no appetite at all . One afternoon she was invited to tea at Grandfather King 's when they had some special company -- people from Charlottetown . Cousin Annetta said she could hardly eat anything . ` You know , Uncle Abraham , ' she said , in a very affected , fine-young-lady voice , ' I really hardly eat enough to keep a bird alive . Mother says she wonders how I continue to exist . ' And she picked and pecked until Grandfather King declared he would like to throw something at her .
After tea Cousin Annetta went home , and just XXXXX dark Grandfather King went over to Uncle Jeremiah 's on an errand .
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