Uncle Roger and Peter were summoned from the field . Mrs. Patterson became hysterical , and was taken into the spare room with such remedies as could be suggested . Everybody blamed poor Dan . Cecily asked him what he would feel like if Jimmy was never , never found . The Story Girl had a gruesome recollection of some baby at Markdale who had wandered away like that -- `` And they never found him till the next spring , and all they found was -- HIS SKELETON , with the grass growing through it , '' she whispered . `` This beats me , '' said Uncle Roger , when a fruitless hour had elapsed . `` I do hope that baby has n't wandered down to the swamp . It seems impossible he could walk so far ; but I must go and see . Felicity , hand me my high boots out from under the sofa , there 's a girl . '' Felicity , pale and tearful , dropped on her knees and lifted the cretonne frill of the sofa . There , his head pillowed hardly on Uncle Roger 's boots , lay Jimmy Patterson , still sound asleep ! `` Well , I 'll be -- jiggered ! '' said Uncle Roger . `` I KNEW he never went out of the door , '' cried Dan triumphantly . When the last buggy had driven away , Felicity set a batch of bread , and the rest of us sat around the back porch steps in the cat 's light and ate cherries , shooting the stones at each other . Cecily was in quest of information . `` What does ` it never rains but it pours ' mean ? '' `` Oh , it means if anything happens something else is sure to happen , '' said the Story Girl . `` I 'll illustrate . There 's Mrs. Murphy .
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