`` Do you think you 'll like weighing out sugar and beans , and trafficking in butter and eggs ? '' said the doctor , twinkling . `` Probably not . That is n't the question . It 's just one way of doing my bit . '' So Rilla went behind Mr. Flagg 's counter for a month ; and Susan went into Albert Crawford 's oat-fields . `` I am as good as any of them yet , '' she said proudly . `` Not a man of them can beat me when it comes to building a stack . When I offered to help Albert looked doubtful . ' I am afraid the work will be too hard for you , ' he said . ` Try me for a day and see , ' said I. ' I will do my darnedest . ' '' None of the Ingleside folks spoke for just a moment . Their silence meant that they thought Susan 's pluck in `` working out '' quite wonderful . But Susan mistook their meaning and her sun-burned face grew red . `` This habit of swearing seems to be growing on me , Mrs. Dr. dear , '' she said apologetically . `` To think that I should be acquiring it at my age ! It is such a dreadful example to the young girls . I am of the opinion it comes of reading the newspapers so much . They are so full of profanity and they do not spell it with stars either , as used to be done in my young days . This war is demoralizing everybody . ''
Susan , standing on a load of grain , her grey hair whipping XXXXX the breeze and her skirt kilted up to her knees for safety and convenience -- no overalls for Susan , if you please -- neither a beautiful nor a romantic figure ; but the spirit that animated her gaunt arms was the self-same one that captured Vimy Ridge and held the German legions back from Verdun .
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