`` I went and asked him to come to church , '' said Faith uncomfortably . `` Fancy your spunk ! '' said Mary admiringly . '' I would n't have dared do that and I 'm not so slow . Mrs. Wilson says the two of you jawed something scandalous , but you come off best and then he just turned round and like to eat you up . Say , is your father going to preach here to-morrow ? '' `` No . He 's going to exchange with Mr. Perry from Charlottetown . Father went to town this morning and Mr. Perry is coming out to-night . '' `` I THOUGHT there was something in the wind , though old Martha would n't give me any satisfaction . But I felt sure she would n't have been killing that rooster for nothing . '' `` What rooster ? What do you mean ? '' cried Faith , turning pale . '' I do n't know what rooster . I did n't see it . When she took the butter Mrs. Elliott sent up she said she 'd been out to the barn killing a rooster for dinner tomorrow . '' Faith sprang down from the pine . `` It 's Adam -- we have no other rooster -- she has killed Adam . '' `` Now , do n't fly off the handle .
Martha said the butcher at the Glen had no meat this week and she had XXXXX have something and the hens were all laying and too poor . ''
Charlottetown Elliott for from in morning of spunk though to