Now , it 's past eleven , so I 'll wipe up this mess on the floor and we 'll go outside . You dust the furniture and I 'll shake the rugs . I 'm going to do it in the graveyard . I do n't want to send dust flying all over the lawn . Faith enjoyed the rug shaking . To stand on Hezekiah Pollock 's tombstone , flapping and shaking rugs , was real fun . To be sure , Elder Abraham Clow and his wife , driving past in their capacious double-seated buggy , seemed to gaze at her in grim disapproval . `` Is n't that a terrible sight ? '' said Elder Abraham solemnly . `` I would never have believed it if I had n't seen it with my own eyes , '' said Mrs. Elder Abraham , more solemnly still . Faith waved a door mat cheerily at the Clow party . It did not worry her that the elder and his wife did not return her greeting . Everybody knew that Elder Abraham had never been known to smile since he had been appointed Superintendent of the Sunday School fourteen years previously . But it hurt her that Minnie and Adella Clow did not wave back . Faith liked Minnie and Adella . Next to the Blythes , they were her best friends in school and she always helped Adella with her sums . This was gratitude for you . Her friends cut her because she was shaking rugs in an old graveyard where , as Mary Vance said , not a living soul had been buried for years . Faith flounced around to the veranda , where she found Una grieved in spirit because the Clow girls had not waved to her , either . `` I suppose they 're mad over something , '' said Faith .
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Abraham Adella Blythes Clow Minnie Pollock Superintendent Una Vance years