When I snuggle down in my comfortable bed I am ashamed of being comfortable . It seems as if it were wicked of me to be so when many are not . '' `` I saw Mrs. Meredith down at the store , '' said Susan , `` and she tells me that they are really troubled over Bruce , he takes things so much to heart . He has cried himself to sleep for a week , over the starving Belgians . ` Oh , mother , ' he will say to her , so beseeching-like , ` surely the babies are never hungry -- oh , not the babies , mother ! Just say the babies are not hungry , mother . ' And she can not say it because it would not be true , and she is at her wits ' end . They try to keep such things from him but he finds them out and then they can not comfort him . It breaks my heart to read about them myself , Mrs. Dr. dear , and I can not console myself with the thought that the tales are not true . When I read a novel that makes me want to weep I just say severely to myself , ` Now , Susan Baker , you know that is all a pack of lies . ' But we must carry on . Jack Crawford says he is going to the war because he is tired of farming . I hope he will find it a pleasant change . And Mrs. Richard Elliott over-harbour is worrying herself sick because she used to be always scolding her husband about smoking up the parlour curtains . Now that he has enlisted she wishes she had never said a word to him . You know Josiah Cooper and William Daley , Mrs. Dr. dear . They used to be fast friends but they quarrelled twenty years ago and have never spoken since . Well , the other day Josiah went to William and said right out , ` Let us be friends . ` Tai n't any time to be holding grudges . ' William was real glad and held out his hand , and they sat down for a good talk .
And XXXXX less than half an hour they had quarrelled again , over how the war ought to be fought , Josiah holding that the Dardanelles expedition was rank folly and William maintaining that it was the one sensible thing the Allies had done .
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