But I 'm told they finished up with Polly Wolly Doodle at full length -- and that just when Deacon Baxter was praying . '' `` I was there that night , '' said Susan , '' and , although I did not say anything about it to you , Mrs. Dr. dear , I could not help thinking that it was a great pity they picked that particular evening . It was truly blood-curdling to hear them sitting there in that abode of the dead , shouting that frivolous song at the tops of their lungs . '' `` I do n't know what YOU were doing in a Methodist prayer meeting , '' said Miss Cornelia acidly . `` I have never found that Methodism was catching , '' retorted Susan stiffly . `` And , as I was going to say when I was interrupted , badly as I felt , I did NOT give in to the Methodists . When Mrs. Deacon Baxter said , as we came out , ` What a disgraceful exhibition ! ' I said , looking her fairly in the eye , ` They are all beautiful singers , and none of YOUR choir , Mrs. Baxter , ever bother themselves coming out to your prayer meeting , it seems . Their voices appear to be in tune only on Sundays ! ' She was quite meek and I felt that I had snubbed her properly . But I could have done it much more thoroughly , Mrs. Dr. dear , if only they had left out Polly Wolly Doodle . It is truly terrible to think of that being sung in a graveyard . '' `` Some of those dead folks sang Polly Wolly Doodle when they were living , Susan . Perhaps they like to hear it yet , '' suggested Gilbert . Miss Cornelia looked at him reproachfully and made up her mind that , on some future occasion , she would hint to Anne that the doctor should be admonished not to say such things . They might injure his practice . People might get it into their heads that he was n't orthodox . To be sure , Marshall said even worse things habitually , but then HE was not a public man . `` I understand that their father was in his study all the time , with his windows open , but never noticed them at all . Of course , he was lost in a book as usual .
But I spoke XXXXX him about it yesterday , when he called . ''
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