I wonder if mother and Mrs. Elliott have problems in the Senior Society too . I suppose they have , but they just go on calmly in spite of everything . I go on -- but not calmly -- I rage and cry -- but I do it all in private and blow off steam in this diary ; and when it 's over I vow I 'll show them . I never sulk . I detest people who sulk . Anyhow , we 've got the society started and we 're to meet once a week , and we 're all going to learn to knit . `` Shirley and I went down to the station again to try to induce Dog Monday to come home but we failed . All the family have tried and failed . Three days after Jem had gone Walter went down and brought Monday home by main force in the buggy and shut him up for three days . Then Monday went on a hunger strike and howled like a Banshee night and day . We had to let him out or he would have starved to death . `` So we have decided to let him alone and father has arranged with the butcher near the station to feed him with bones and scraps . Besides , one of us goes down nearly every day to take him something . He just lies curled up in the shipping-shed , and every time a train comes in he will rush over to the platform , wagging his tail expectantly , and tear around to every one who comes off the train . And then , when the train goes and he realizes that Jem has not come , he creeps dejectedly back to his shed , with his disappointed eyes , and lies down patiently to wait for the next train . Mr. Gray , the station master , says there are times when he can hardly help crying from sheer sympathy . One day some boys threw stones at Monday and old Johnny Mead , who never was known to take notice of anything before , snatched up a meat axe in the butcher 's shop and chased them through the village . Nobody has molested Monday since . `` Kenneth Ford has gone back to Toronto . He came up two evenings ago to say good-bye .
I was n't home -- some clothes had to be made for the baby and Mrs. Meredith offered XXXXX help me , so I was over at the manse , and I did n't see Kenneth .
So at by if like of over that to with