Ella and the other big scholars felt terrible over it . They love their teacher so , and it seems Mr. Pryor 's brother , Abel Pryor , who is trustee of that school , is against her and has been trying to turn the other trustees over to his way of thinking . And Ella and the rest were afraid that if the fourth class could n't tell Whiskers the meanings of the words he would think the teacher was no good and tell Abel so , and Abel would have a fine handle . But little Sandy Logan saved the situation . He is a Home boy , but he is as smart as a steel trap , and he sized up Whiskers-on-the-moon right off . ` What does `` anatomy '' mean ? ' Whiskers demanded . ' A pain in your stomach , ' Sandy replied , quick as a flash and never batting an eyelid . Whiskers-on-the-moon is a very ignorant man , Mrs. Dr. dear ; he did n't know the meaning of the words himself , and he said ` Very good -- very good . ' The class caught right on -- at least three or four of the brighter ones did -- and they kept up the fun . Jean Blane said that ` acoustic ' meant ' a religious squabble , ' and Muriel Baker said that an ` agnostic ' was ' a man who had indigestion , ' and Jim Carter said that ` acerbity ' meant that ` you ate nothing but vegetable food , ' and so on all down the list . Whiskers swallowed it all , and kept saying ` Very good -- very good ' until Ella thought that die she would trying to keep a straight face . When the teacher came in , Whiskers complimented her on the splendid understanding the children had of their lesson and said he meant to tell the trustees what a jewel they had . It was ` very unusual , ' he said , to find a fourth class who could answer up so prompt when it came to explaining what words meant . He went off beaming . But Ella told me this as a great secret , Mrs. Dr. dear , and we must keep it as such , for the sake of the Lowbridge Road teacher . It would likely be the ruin of her chances of keeping the school if Whiskers should ever find out how he had been bamboozled . '' Mary Vance came up to Ingleside that same afternoon to tell them that Miller Douglas , who had been wounded when the Canadians took Hill 70 , had had to have his leg amputated . The Ingleside folk sympathized with Mary , whose zeal and patriotism had taken some time to kindle but now burned with a glow as steady and bright as any one 's . `` Some folks have been twitting me about having a husband with only one leg .
But , '' said Mary , rising to a lofty height , `` I would rather Miller XXXXX only one leg than any other man in the world with a dozen -- unless , '' she added as an after-thought , `` unless it was Lloyd George .
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