`` I 'm a poor sort of father . Oh , Rosemary ! If you had only cared ! '' CHAPTER XXVIII . A FAST DAY The Good-Conduct Club had a special session the next morning before school . After various suggestions , it was decided that a fast day would be an appropriate punishment . `` We wo n't eat a single thing for a whole day , '' said Jerry . `` I 'm kind of curious to see what fasting is like , anyhow . This will be a good chance to find out . '' `` What day will we choose for it ? '' asked Una , who thought it would he quite an easy punishment and rather wondered that Jerry and Faith had not devised something harder . `` Let 's pick Monday , '' said Faith . `` We mostly have a pretty FILLING dinner on Sundays , and Mondays meals never amount to much anyhow . '' `` But that 's just the point , '' exclaimed Jerry . `` We must n't take the easiest day to fast , but the hardest -- and that 's Sunday , because , as you say , we mostly have roast beef that day instead of cold ditto . It would n't be much punishment to fast from ditto . Let 's take next Sunday . It will be a good day , for father is going to exchange for the morning service with the Upper Lowbridge minister . Father will be away till evening . If Aunt Martha wonders what 's got into us , we 'll tell her right up that we 're fasting for the good of our souls , and it is in the Bible and she is not to interfere , and I guess she wo n't . ''
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