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 in 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 . And now they are madder at each other than ever and William says Josiah is as bad a pro-German as Whiskers-on-the-Moon . Whiskers-on-the-moon vows he is no pro-German but calls himself a pacifist , whatever that may be . It is nothing proper or Whiskers would not be it and that you may tie to . He says that the big British victory at New Chapelle cost more than it was worth and he has forbid Joe Milgrave to come near the house because Joe ran up his father 's flag when the news came . Have you noticed , Mrs. Dr. dear , that the Czar has changed that Prish name to Premysl , which proves that the man had good sense , Russian though he is ?
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