Anyhow , compared with Germans even Methodists seem attractive to me . ' `` Our Junior R.C. goes on quite smoothly , in spite of the fact that Irene has come back to it -- having fallen out with the Lowbridge society , I understand . She gave me a sweet little jab last meeting -- about knowing me across the square in Charlottetown ` by my green velvet hat . ' Everybody knows me by that detestable and detested hat . This will be my fourth season for it . Even mother wanted me to get a new one this fall ; but I said , ` No . ' As long as the war lasts so long do I wear that velvet hat in winter . '' 23rd November 1917 `` The Piave line still holds -- and General Byng has won a splendid victory at Cambrai . I did run up the flag for that -- but Susan only said ' I shall set a kettle of water on the kitchen range tonight . I notice little Kitchener always has an attack of croup after any British victory . I do hope he has no pro-German blood in his veins . Nobody knows much about his father 's people . ' `` Jims has had a few attacks of croup this fall -- just the ordinary croup -- not that terrible thing he had last year . But whatever blood runs in his little veins it is good , healthy blood . He is rosy and plump and curly and cute ; and he says such funny things and asks such comical questions . He likes very much to sit in a special chair in the kitchen ; but that is Susan 's favourite chair , too , and when she wants it , out Jims must go . The last time she put him out of it he turned around and asked solemnly , ` When you are dead , Susan , can I sit in that chair ? ' Susan thought it quite dreadful , and I think that was when she began to feel anxiety about his possible ancestry . The other night I took Jims with me for a walk down to the store . It was the first time he had ever been out so late at night , and when he saw the stars he exclaimed , ` Oh , Willa , see the big moon and all the little moons ! '
And last Wednesday morning , when he woke up , my little alarm clock had stopped because I had forgotten XXXXX wind it up .
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