`` I wonder if Mr. Alec Davis would come back and ha ` nt me if I threw a stone at the urn on top of his tombstone , '' said Jerry . `` Mrs. Davis would , '' giggled Faith . `` She just watches us in church like a cat watching mice . Last Sunday I made a face at her nephew and he made one back at me and you should have seen her glare . I 'll bet she boxed HIS ears when they got out . Mrs. Marshall Elliott told me we must n't offend her on any account or I 'd have made a face at her , too ! '' `` They say Jem Blythe stuck out his tongue at her once and she would never have his father again , even when her husband was dying , '' said Jerry . `` I wonder what the Blythe gang will be like . '' `` I liked their looks , '' said Faith . The manse children had been at the station that afternoon when the Blythe small fry had arrived . `` I liked Jem 's looks ESPECIALLY . '' `` They say in school that Walter 's a sissy , '' said Jerry . `` I do n't believe it , '' said Una , who had thought Walter very handsome . `` Well , he writes poetry , anyhow . He won the prize the teacher offered last year for writing a poem , Bertie Shakespeare Drew told me . Bertie 's mother thought HE should have got the prize because of his name , but Bertie said he could n't write poetry to save his soul , name or no name . '' `` I suppose we 'll get acquainted with them as soon as they begin going to school , '' mused Faith . `` I hope the girls are nice . I do n't like most of the girls round here . Even the nice ones are poky .
But the XXXXX twins look jolly .
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