The poor Story Girl went very white . `` Oh , Uncle Roger , could it be possible ? You COULD N'T have swallowed a needle without knowing it . It would have stuck in your tongue or teeth . '' `` I did n't chew the pudding , '' groaned Uncle Roger . `` It was too tough -- I just swallowed the chunks whole . '' He groaned and twisted and doubled himself up . But he overdid it . He was not as good an actor as the Story Girl . Felicity looked scornfully at him . `` Uncle Roger , you are not one bit sick , '' she said deliberately . `` You are just putting on . '' `` Felicity , if I die from the effects of eating sawdust pudding , flavoured with needles , you 'll be sorry you ever said such a thing to your poor old uncle , '' said Uncle Roger reproachfully . `` Even if there were no needles in it , sixty-year-old sawdust ca n't be good for my tummy . I daresay it was n't even clean . '' `` Well , you know every one has to eat a peck of dirt in his life , '' giggled Felicity . `` But nobody has to eat it all at once , '' retorted Uncle Roger , with another groan . `` Oh , Sara Stanley , it 's a thankful man I am that your Aunt Olivia is to be home to-night . You 'd have me kilt entirely by another day . I believe you did it on purpose to have a story to tell . ''
Uncle Roger hobbled off XXXXX the barn , still holding on to his stomach .
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