It seems to me you have n't any idea of how manse children ought to behave ! '' `` Maybe YOU can tell us , '' said Jerry , killingly sarcastic . Sarcasm was quite thrown away on Mary . '' I can tell you what will happen if you do n't learn to behave yourselves . The session will ask your father to resign . There now , Master Jerry-know-it-all . Mrs. Alec Davis said so to Mrs. Elliott . I heard her . I always have my ears pricked up when Mrs. Alec Davis comes to tea . She said you were all going from bad to worse and that though it was only what was to be expected when you had nobody to bring you up , still the congregation could n't be expected to put up with it much longer , and something would have to be done . The Methodists just laugh and laugh at you , and that hurts the Presbyterian feelings . SHE says you all need a good dose of birch tonic . Lor ' , if that would make folks good I oughter be a young saint . I 'm not telling you this because I want to hurt YOUR feelings . I 'm sorry for you '' -- Mary was past mistress of the gentle art of condescension . '' I understand that you have n't much chance , the way things are . But other people do n't make as much allowance as I do . Miss Drew says Carl had a frog in his pocket in Sunday School last Sunday and it hopped out while she was hearing the lesson . She says she 's going to give up the class . Why do n't you keep your insecks home ? ''
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