But they both happened to visit Mrs. Foster the same afternoon and neither would leave because that would be knuckling down to the other . So they stuck it out , on opposite sides of the parlour . Mrs. Foster says she never spent such an uncomfortable afternoon in all her life before . She would talk a spell to one and then t ` other . And they kept talking TO Mrs. Foster and AT each other . Mrs. Foster says she really thought she 'd have to keep them all night , for neither would start to go home afore the other . Finally Jim Martin came in to look for his wife , 'cause he thought she must have got stuck in the marsh , and that solved the problem . Master , you ai n't eating anything . Do n't mind my stopping ; I was at it half an hour afore you come , and anyway I 'm in a hurry . My hired boy went home to-day . He heard the rooster crow at twelve last night and he 's gone home to see which of his family is dead . He knows one of 'em is . He heard a rooster crow in the middle of the night onct afore and the next day he got word that his second cousin down at Souris was dead . Mother , if the Master do n't want any more tea , ai n't there some cream for Timothy ? '' CHAPTER V . A PHANTOM OF DELIGHT Shortly before sunset that evening Eric went for a walk . When he did not go to the shore he liked to indulge in long tramps through the Lindsay fields and woods , in the mellowness of `` the sweet ' o the year . '' Most of the Lindsay houses were built along the main road , which ran parallel to the shore , or about the stores at `` The Corner . '' The farms ran back from them into solitudes of woods and pasture lands . Eric struck southwest from the Williamson homestead , in a direction he had not hitherto explored , and walked briskly along , enjoying the witchery of the season all about him in earth and air and sky .
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