`` But , oh , Donald , it 's best of all just to have you back . I 'm so perfectly happy that I do n't know what to do or say . '' `` Well , I think you might have dinner , '' said Jimmy in an injured tone . `` The turkey 's getting stone cold , and I 'm most starving . I just ca n't stand it another minute . '' So , with a laugh , they all sat down to the table and ate the merriest Christmas dinner the little log house had ever known . How We Went to the Wedding `` If it were to clear up I would n't know how to behave , it would seem so unnatural , '' said Kate . `` Do you , by any chance , remember what the sun looks like , Phil ? '' `` Does the sun ever shine in Saskatchewan anyhow ? '' I asked with assumed sarcasm , just to make Kate 's big , bonny black eyes flash . They did flash ; but Kate laughed immediately after , as she sat down on a chair in front of me and cradled her long , thin , spirited dark face in her palms . `` We have more sunny weather in Saskatchewan than in all the rest of Canada put together , in an average year , '' she said , clicking her strong , white teeth and snapping her eyes at me . `` But I ca n't blame you for feeling sceptical about it , Phil . If I went to a new country and it rained every day -- all day -- all night -- after I got there for three whole weeks I 'd think things not lawful to be uttered about the climate too . So , little cousin , I forgive you . Remember that ` into each life some rain must fall , some days must be dark and dreary . ' Oh , if you 'd only come to visit me last fall . We had such a bee-yew-tiful September last year . We were drowned in sunshine . This fall we 're drowned in water .
Old settlers tell XXXXX a similar visitation in ' 72 , though they claim even that was n't quite as bad as this . ''
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