Who knew but that it might be Shirley away up there in the clouds , flying over to the Island from Kingsport ? But Shirley had gone overseas now , so Susan was not so keenly interested in this particular aeroplane and its pilot . Nevertheless , she looked at it with awe . `` I wonder , Mrs. Dr. dear , '' she said solemnly , `` what the old folks down there in the graveyard would think if they could rise out of their graves for one moment and behold that sight . I am sure my father would disapprove of it , for he was a man who did not believe in new-fangled ideas of any sort . He always cut his grain with a reaping hook to the day of his death . A mower he would not have . What was good enough for his father was good enough for him , he used to say . I hope it is not unfilial to say that I think he was wrong in that point of view , but I am not sure I go so far as to approve of aeroplanes , though they may be a military necessity . If the Almighty had meant us to fly he would have provided us with wings . Since He did not it is plain He meant us to stick to the solid earth . At any rate , you will never see me , Mrs. Dr. dear , cavorting through the sky in an aeroplane . '' `` But you wo n't refuse to cavort a bit in father 's new automobile when it comes , will you , Susan ? '' teased Rilla . `` I do not expect to trust my old bones in automobiles , either , '' retorted Susan . `` But I do not look upon them as some narrow-minded people do . Whiskers-on-the-moon says the Government should be turned out of office for permitting them to run on the Island at all . He foams at the mouth , they tell me , when he sees one . The other day he saw one coming along that narrow side-road by his wheatfield , and Whiskers bounded over the fence and stood right in the middle of the road , with his pitchfork . The man in the machine was an agent of some kind , and Whiskers hates agents as much as he hates automobiles .
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