So I suppose she means to take me at my word and I do n't care , for I do not want to be friends with a girl who could repeat such a falsehood about Walter . But I feel unhappy over it for all that . We 've always been such good chums and until lately Irene was lovely to me ; and now another illusion has been stripped from my eyes and I feel as if there was n't such a thing as real true friendship in the world . `` Father got old Joe Mead to build a kennel for Dog Monday in the corner of the shipping-shed today . We thought perhaps Monday would come home when the cold weather came but he would n't . No earthly influence can coax Monday away from that shed even for a few minutes . There he stays and meets every train . So we had to do something to make him comfortable . Joe built the kennel so that Monday could lie in it and still see the platform , so we hope he will occupy it . `` Monday has become quite famous . A reporter of the Enterprise came out from town and photographed him and wrote up the whole story of his faithful vigil . It was published in the Enterprise and copied all over Canada . But that does n't matter to poor little Monday , Jem has gone away -- Monday does n't know where or why -- but he will wait until he comes back . Somehow it comforts me : it 's foolish , I suppose , but it gives me a feeling that Jem will come back or else Monday would n't keep on waiting for him . `` Jims is snoring beside me in his cradle . It is just a cold that makes him snore -- not adenoids . Irene had a cold yesterday and I know she gave it to him , kissing him . He is not quite such a nuisance as he was ; he has got some backbone and can sit up quite nicely , and he loves his bath now and splashes unsmilingly in the water instead of twisting and shrieking . Oh , shall I ever forget those first two months ! I do n't know how I lived through them .
But here I am and here is Jims and we both are going XXXXX ` carry on . '
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