It 's more likely it 's been the robins took your cherries . They 're turrible thick this year . '' `` Robins ! '' said Miss Cornelia disdainfully . `` Humph ! Two-legged robins , believe ME ! '' `` Well , most of the Four Winds robins ARE constructed on that principle , '' said Captain Jim gravely . Miss Cornelia stared at him for a moment . Then she leaned back in her rocker and laughed long and ungrudgingly . `` Well , you HAVE got one on me at last , Jim Boyd , I 'll admit . Just look how pleased he is , Anne , dearie , grinning like a Chessy-cat . As for the robins ' legs if robins have great , big , bare , sunburned legs , with ragged trousers hanging on 'em , such as I saw up in my cherry tree one morning at sunrise last week , I 'll beg the Gilman boys ' pardon . By the time I got down they were gone . I could n't understand how they had disappeared so quick , but Captain Jim has enlightened me . They flew away , of course . '' Captain Jim laughed and went away , regretfully declining an invitation to stay to supper and partake of cherry pie . `` I 'm on my way to see Leslie and ask her if she 'll take a boarder , '' Miss Cornelia resumed . `` I 'd a letter yesterday from a Mrs. Daly in Toronto , who boarded a spell with me two years ago . She wanted me to take a friend of hers for the summer . His name is Owen Ford , and he 's a newspaper man , and it seems he 's a grandson of the schoolmaster who built this house .
John Selwyn 's oldest daughter married an Ontario man named XXXXX , and this is her son .
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