They talked most of the night about new knitted lace patterns and their beaus and were very sleepy in school next day . -LRB- CECILY , SHARPLY : -- `` We never mentioned such things ! '' -RRB- Patrick Grayfur , Esq. , was indisposed yesterday , but seems to be enjoying his usual health to-day . The King family expect their Aunt Eliza to visit them in January . She is really our great-aunt . We have never seen her but we are told she is very deaf and does not like children . So Aunt Janet says we must make ourselves scarece when she comes . Miss Cecily King has undertaken to fill with names a square of the missionary quilt which the Mission Band is making . You pay five cents to have your name embroidered in a corner , ten cents to have it in the centre , and a quarter if you want it left off altogether . -LRB- CECILY , INDIGNANTLY : -- `` That is n't the way at all . '' -RRB- ADS . WANTED -- A remedy to make a fat boy thin . Address , `` Patient Sufferer , care of Our Magazine . '' -LRB- FELIX , SOURLY : -- `` Sara Ray never got that up . I 'll bet it was Dan . He 'd better stick to his own department . '' -RRB- HOUSEHOLD DEPARTMENT Mrs. Alexander King killed all her geese the twentieth of December . We all helped pick them . We had one Christmas Day and will have one every fortnight the rest of the winter . The bread was sour last week because mother would n't take my advice .
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