I said I 'd be Presbyterian and I mean to stick to it . '' `` You said you knew a story that had something to do with Presbyterians , '' I said to the Story Girl . `` Tell us it now . '' `` Oh , no , it is n't the right kind of story to tell on Sunday , '' she replied . `` But I 'll tell it to-morrow morning . '' Accordingly , we heard it the next morning in the orchard . `` Long ago , when Judy Pineau was young , '' said the Story Girl , `` she was hired with Mrs. Elder Frewen -- the first Mrs. Elder Frewen . Mrs. Frewen had been a school-teacher , and she was very particular as to how people talked , and the grammar they used . And she did n't like anything but refined words . One very hot day she heard Judy Pineau say she was ` all in a sweat . ' Mrs. Frewen was greatly shocked , and said , ` Judy , you should n't say that . It 's horses that sweat . You should say you are in a perspiration . ' Well , Judy promised she 'd remember , because she liked Mrs. Frewen and was anxious to please her . Not long afterwards Judy was scrubbing the kitchen floor one morning , and when Mrs. Frewen came in Judy looked up and said , quite proud over using the right word , ` Oh , Mees Frewen , ai n't it awful hot ? I declare I 'm all in a Presbyterian . ' '' CHAPTER XXI . DREAMERS OF DREAMS August went out and September came in . Harvest was ended ; and though summer was not yet gone , her face was turned westering . The asters lettered her retreating footsteps in a purple script , and over the hills and valleys hung a faint blue smoke , as if Nature were worshipping at her woodland altar .
The apples began XXXXX burn red on the bending boughs ; crickets sang day and night ; squirrels chattered secrets of Polichinelle in the spruces ; the sunshine was as thick and yellow as molten gold ; school opened , and we small denizens of the hill farms lived happy days of harmless work and necessary play , closing in nights of peaceful , undisturbed slumber under a roof watched over by autumnal stars .
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