`` You bet I would , '' said Jims emphatically . After that she always wore them -- pink and primrose and blue and white ; and she let Jims wreathe flowers in her splendid hair . He had quite a knack of it . She never wore any jewelry except , always , a little gold ring with a design of two clasped hands . `` A friend gave that to me long ago when we were boy and girl together at school , '' she told Jims once . `` I never take it off , night or day . When I die it is to be buried with me . '' `` You must n't die till I do , '' said Jims in dismay . `` Oh , Jims , if we could only live together nothing else would matter , '' she said hungrily . `` Jims -- Jims -- I see so little of you really -- and some day soon you 'll be going to school -- and I 'll lose you . '' `` I 've got to think of some way to prevent it , '' cried Jims . `` I wo n't have it . I wo n't -- I wo n't . '' But his heart sank notwithstanding . One day Jims slipped from the blue room , down the pine and across the lawn with a tear-stained face . `` Aunt Augusta is going to kill my gobbler , '' he sobbed in Miss Avery 's arms . `` She says she is n't going to bother with him any longer -- and he 's getting old -- and he 's to be killed . And that gobbler is the only friend I have in the world except you . Oh , I ca n't stand it , Miss Avery . '' Next day Aunt Augusta told him the gobbler had been sold and taken away .
And Jims flew into a passion of tears and protest about it and was promptly incarcerated XXXXX the blue room .
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