You were always a great hand for taking what you wanted without too much ceremony . Walter held on tight and the poor kitten yelled but you dragged Walter and the kitten half over and then you both lost your balance and tumbled into that puncheon , kitten and all . If I had not been on the spot you would both have been drowned . I flew to the rescue and hauled you all three out before much harm was done , and your mother , who had seen it all from the upstairs window , came down and picked you up , dripping as you were , and gave you a beautiful spanking . Ah , '' said Susan with a sigh , `` those were happy old days at Ingleside . '' `` Must have been , '' said Ken . His voice sounded queer and stiff . Rilla supposed he was hopelessly enraged . The truth was he dared not trust his voice lest it betray his frantic desire to laugh . `` Rilla here , now , '' said Susan , looking affectionately at that unhappy damsel , `` never was much spanked . She was a real well-behaved child for the most part . But her father did spank her once . She got two bottles of pills out of his office and dared Alice Clow to see which of them could swallow all the pills first , and if her father had not happened in the nick of time those two children would have been corpses by night . As it was , they were both sick enough shortly after . But the doctor spanked Rilla then and there and he made such a thorough job of it that she never meddled with anything in his office afterwards . We hear a great deal nowadays of something that is called ` moral persuasion , ' but in my opinion a good spanking and no nagging afterwards is a much better thing . '' Rilla wondered viciously whether Susan meant to relate all the family spankings . But Susan had finished with the subject and branched off to another cheerful one . `` I remember little Tod MacAllister over-harbour killed himself that very way , eating up a whole box of fruitatives because he thought they were candy . It was a very sad affair .
He was , '' said XXXXX earnestly , `` the very cutest little corpse I ever laid my eyes on .
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