I just stood right up on my feet in that crowded house and shrieked at the top of my voice -- ` The knife is in your stocking -- the knife is in your stocking ! ' `` I created a sensation ! `` The funny part was , that just as I said it , the girl did snatch out the knife and stab the soldier with it ! `` Everybody in the house laughed . I came to my senses and fell back in my seat , overcome with mortification . Mother was shaking with laughter . I could have shaken her . Why had n't she pulled me down and choked me before I had made such an idiot of myself . She protests that there was n't time . `` Fortunately the house was dark , and I do n't believe there was anybody there who knew me . And I thought I was becoming sensible and self-controlled and womanly ! It is plain I have some distance to go yet before I attain that devoutly desired consummation . '' 20th September 1918 `` In the east Bulgaria has asked for peace , and in the west the British have smashed the Hindenburg line ; and right here in Glen St. Mary little Bruce Meredith has done something that I think wonderful -- wonderful because of the love behind it . Mrs. Meredith was here tonight and told us about it -- and mother and I cried , and Susan got up and clattered the things about the stove . `` Bruce always loved Jem very devotedly , and the child has never forgotten him in all these years . He has been as faithful in his way as Dog Monday was in his . We have always told him that Jem would come back . But it seems that he was in Carter Flagg 's store last night and he heard his Uncle Norman flatly declaring that Jem Blythe would never come back and that the Ingleside folk might as well give up hoping he would . Bruce went home and cried himself to sleep . This morning his mother saw him going out of the yard , with a very sorrowful and determined look , carrying his pet kitten .
She did n't think much more about it until later on he came XXXXX , with the most tragic little face , and told her , his little body shaking with sobs , that he had drowned Stripey . ''
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