She was a jolly , companionable , philosophical soul , with a jest for every situation , and a merry solution for every perplexity . The only fault I had to find with her was her tendency to make parodies . Kate 's parodies were perfectly awful and always got on my nerves . She was dreadfully ashamed of the way the Saskatchewan weather was behaving after all her boasting . She was thin at the best of times , but now she grew positively scraggy with the worry of it . I am afraid I took an unholy delight in teasing her , and abused the western weather even more than was necessary . Jim Nash -- the lank youth who was hired to look after the place during Uncle Kenneth 's absence on a prolonged threshing expedition -- had brought some mail . Kate 's share was a letter , postmarked Bothwell , a rising little town about one hundred and twenty miles from Arrow Creek . Kate had several friends there , and one of our plans had been to visit Bothwell and spend a week with them . We had meant to drive , of course , since there was no other way of getting there , and equally of course the plan had been abandoned because of the wet weather . `` Mother , '' exclaimed Kate , `` Mary Taylor is going to be married in a fortnight 's time ! She wants Phil and me to go up to Bothwell for the wedding . '' `` What a pity you ca n't go , '' remarked Aunt Jennie placidly . Aunt Jennie was always a placid little soul , with a most enviable knack of taking everything easy . Nothing ever worried her greatly , and when she had decided that a thing was inevitable it did not worry her at all . `` But I am going , '' cried Kate . `` I will go -- I must go . I positively can not let Mary Taylor -- my own beloved Molly -- go and perpetrate matrimony without my being on hand to see it . Yes , I 'm going -- and if Phil has a spark of the old Blair pioneer spirit in her , she 'll go too . '' `` Of course I 'll go if you go , '' I said .
Aunt Jennie did not think we were XXXXX earnest , so she merely laughed at first , and said , `` How do you propose to go ?
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