I shall make the same kind of pudding today I always make on Saturday . It is a good deal of trouble to make , and that is well , for it will employ my thoughts . I will remember that Kitchener is at the helm and Joffer is doing very well for a Frenchman . I shall get that box of cake off to little Jem and finish that pair of socks today likewise . A sock a day is my allowance . Old Mrs. Albert Mead of Harbour Head manages a pair and a half a day but she has nothing to do but knit . You know , Mrs. Dr. dear , she has been bed-rid for years and she has been worrying terrible because she was no good to anybody and a dreadful expense , and yet could not die and be out of the way . And now they tell me she is quite chirked up and resigned to living because there is something she can do , and she knits for the soldiers from daylight to dark . Even Cousin Sophia has taken to knitting , Mrs. Dr. dear , and it is a good thing , for she can not think of quite so many doleful speeches to make when her hands are busy with her needles instead of being folded on her stomach . She thinks we will all be Germans this time next year but I tell her it will take more than a year to make a German out of me . Do you know that Rick MacAllister has enlisted , Mrs. Dr. dear ? And they say Joe Milgrave would too , only he is afraid that if he does that Whiskers-on-the-moon will not let him have Miranda . Whiskers says that he will believe the stories of German atrocities when he sees them , and that it is a good thing that Rangs Cathedral has been destroyed because it was a Roman Catholic church . Now , I am not a Roman Catholic , Mrs. Dr. dear , being born and bred a good Presbyterian and meaning to live and die one , but I maintain that the Catholics have as good a right to their churches as we have to ours and that the Huns had no kind of business to destroy them . Just think , Mrs. Dr. dear , '' concluded Susan pathetically , `` how we would feel if a German shell knocked down the spire of our church here in the glen , and I 'm sure it is every bit as bad to think of Rangs cathedral being hammered to pieces . '' And , meanwhile , everywhere , the lads of the world rich and poor , low and high , white and brown , were following the Piper 's call . `` Even Billy Andrews ' boy is going -- and Jane 's only son -- and Diana 's little Jack , '' said Mrs. Blythe . `` Priscilla 's son has gone from Japan and Stella 's from Vancouver -- and both the Rev. Jo 's boys . Philippa writes that her boys ` went right away , not being afflicted with her indecision . ' '' `` Jem says that he thinks they will be leaving very soon now , and that he will not be able to get leave to come so far before they go , as they will have to start at a few hours ' notice , '' said the doctor , passing the letter to his wife .
`` That is not fair , '' said XXXXX indignantly .
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