Though it would n't be half as interesting as hell , girl -- not half . Only I 'd like to know what your father thinks about heaven -- he CAN think -- rarest thing in the world -- a person who can think . But he DID contradict himself . Ha , ha ! Here 's a question you might ask him sometime when he 's awake , girl . ` Can God make a stone so big He could n't lift it Himself ? ' Do n't forget now . I want to hear his opinion on it . I 've stumped many a minister with that , girl . '' Faith was glad to escape him and run home . Dan Reese , standing among the crowd of boys at the gate , looked at her and shaped his mouth into `` pig-girl , '' but dared not utter it aloud just there . Next day in school was a different matter . At noon recess Faith encountered Dan in the little spruce plantation behind the school and Dan shouted once more , `` Pig-girl ! Pig-girl ! ROOSTER-GIRL ! '' Walter Blythe suddenly rose from a mossy cushion behind a little clump of firs where he had been reading . He was very pale , but his eyes blazed . `` You hold your tongue , Dan Reese ! '' he said . `` Oh , hello , Miss Walter , '' retorted Dan , not at all abashed .
He vaulted airily to the top of the rail fence and chanted insultingly , `` Cowardy , cowardy-custard Stole a pot XXXXX mustard , Cowardy , cowardy-custard ! ''
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