Say the word , '' he said . `` No , thank you , '' said Faith decidedly . `` I do n't like cats , and besides , I have a rooster . '' `` Listen to her . You ca n't cuddle a rooster as you can a kitten . Who ever heard of petting a rooster ? Better take little Tom . I want to find a good home for him . '' `` No . Aunt Martha has a cat and he would kill a strange kitten . '' Norman yielded the point rather reluctantly . He gave Faith an exciting drive home , behind his wild two-year old , and when he had let her out at the kitchen door of the manse and dumped his cargo on the back veranda he drove away shouting , `` It 's only once a month -- only once a month , mind ! '' Faith went up to bed , feeling a little dizzy and breathless , as if she had just escaped from the grasp of a genial whirlwind . She was happy and thankful . No fear now that they would have to leave the Glen and the graveyard and Rainbow Valley . But she fell asleep troubled by a disagreeable subconsciousness that Dan Reese had called her pig-girl and that , having stumbled on such a congenial epithet , he would continue to call her so whenever opportunity offered . CHAPTER XVII . A DOUBLE VICTORY Norman Douglas came to church the first Sunday in November and made all the sensation he desired . Mr. Meredith shook hands with him absently on the church steps and hoped dreamily that Mrs. Douglas was well . `` She was n't very well just before I buried her ten years ago , but I reckon she has better health now , '' boomed Norman , to the horror and amusement of every one except Mr. Meredith , who was absorbed in wondering if he had made the last head of his sermon as clear as he might have , and had n't the least idea what Norman had said to him or he to Norman .
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