`` We had a real nice time , and Edward 's folks were as kind as could be . But give me home for a steady thing . How has everything gone ? How did the children behave , Roger ? '' `` Like models , '' said Uncle Roger . `` They were as good as gold most of the days . '' There were times when one could n't help liking Uncle Roger . CHAPTER XIX . A DREAD PROPHECY `` I 've got to go and begin stumping out the elderberry pasture this afternoon , '' said Peter dolefully . `` I tell you it 's a tough job . Mr. Roger might wait for cool weather before he sets people to stumping out elderberries , and that 's a fact . '' `` Why do n't you tell him so ? '' asked Dan . `` It ai n't my business to tell him things , '' retorted Peter . `` I 'm hired to do what I 'm told , and I do it . But I can have my own opinion all the same . It 's going to be a broiling hot day . '' We were all in the orchard , except Felix , who had gone to the post-office . It was the forenoon of an August Saturday . Cecily and Sara Ray , who had come up to spend the day with us -- her mother having gone to town -- were eating timothy roots .
Bertha Lawrence , a Charlottetown girl , who had visited Kitty Marr in June , and had gone to school one XXXXX with her , had eaten timothy roots , affecting to consider them great delicacies .
Cecily Felix Ray Roger XIX day days elderberries elderberry forenoon