Rilla wondered viciously whether Susan meant to relate all the family spankings . But Susan had finished with the subject and branched off to another cheerful one . `` I remember little Tod MacAllister over-harbour killed himself that very way , eating up a whole box of fruitatives because he thought they were candy . It was a very sad affair . He was , '' said Susan earnestly , `` the very cutest little corpse I ever laid my eyes on . It was very careless of his mother to leave the fruitatives where he could get them , but she was well-known to be a heedless creature . One day she found a nest of five eggs as she was going across the fields to church with a brand new blue silk dress on . So she put them in the pocket of her petticoat and when she got to church she forgot all about them and sat down on them and her dress was ruined , not to speak of the petticoat . Let me see -- would not Tod be some relation of yours ? Your great grandmother West was a MacAllister . Her brother Amos was a MacDonaldite in religion . I am told he used to take the jerks something fearful . But you look more like your great grandfather West than the MacAllisters . He died of a paralytic stroke quite early in life . '' `` Did you see anybody at the store ? '' asked Rilla desperately , in the faint hope of directing Susan 's conversation into more agreeable channels . `` Nobody except Mary Vance , '' said Susan , `` and she was stepping round as brisk as the Irishman 's flea . '' What terrible similes Susan used ! Would Kenneth think she acquired them from the family ! `` To hear Mary talk about Miller Douglas you would think he was the only Glen boy who had enlisted , '' Susan went on .
`` But XXXXX course she always did brag and she has some good qualities I am willing to admit , though I did not think so that time she chased Rilla here through the village with a dried codfish till the poor child fell , heels over head , into the puddle before Carter Flagg 's store . ''
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