`` Of course he naturally would be , since I understand that the Germans invented it . I hear he came near losing his entire wheat-crop lately . Warren Mead 's cows broke into the field one day last week -- it was the very day the Germans captured the Chemang-de-dam , which may have been a coincidence or may not -- and were making fine havoc of it when Mrs. Dick Clow happened to see them from her attic window . At first she had no intention of letting Mr. Pryor know . She told me she had just gloated over the sight of those cows pasturing on his wheat . She felt it served him exactly right . But presently she reflected that the wheat-crop was a matter of great importance and that ` save and serve ' meant that those cows must be routed out as much as it meant anything . So she went down and phoned over to Whiskers about the matter . All the thanks she got was that he said something queer right out to her . She is not prepared to state that it was actually swearing for you can not be sure just what you hear over the phone ; but she has her own opinion , and so have I , but I will not express it for here comes Mr. Meredith , and Whiskers is one of his elders , so we must be discreet . '' `` Are you looking for the new star ? '' asked Mr. Meredith , joining Miss Oliver and Rilla , who were standing among the blossoming potatoes gazing skyward . `` Yes -- we have found it -- see , it is just above the tip of the tallest old pine . '' `` It 's wonderful to be looking at something that happened three thousand years ago , is n't it ? '' said Rilla . `` That is when astronomers think the collision took place which produced this new star . It makes me feel horribly insignificant , '' she added under her breath . `` Even this event can not dwarf into what may be the proper perspective in star systems the fact that the Germans are again only one leap from Paris , '' said Gertrude restlessly . `` I think I would like to have been an astronomer , '' said Mr. Meredith dreamily , gazing at the star . `` There must be a strange pleasure in it , '' agreed Miss Oliver , `` an unearthly pleasure , in more senses than one .
I would like to have a few astronomers XXXXX my friends . ''
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