"
"Oh! but--" they all cried, and stopped short.
"He plagues about manners," said Annie.
"He wanted Susie and me to be sent to school!" said Bessie.
"He said it was like dining with young Hottentots."
"He told Papa it was disgraceful, when we had all been sliding on the
great pond in the village," added Annie.
"And he gave Sam a box on the ear, for only just taking a dear little
river cray-fish in his fishing-net to show Aunt Alice."
"The net was dripping wet," observed Bessie.
"Yes," said Anne; "but Aunt Alice is so finikin and fidgety; she
never wets her feet, and can't get over a stile, and is afraid of a
cow; and he wants us all to be like her."
"And he makes Papa and Mamma mind things that they don't mind by
nature," said Susan.
"Mamma always tells us to be good, and never play at hockey in the
house when he's there," said Anne.
"She has not told us so this time," said John triumphantly.
"No, but we must mind all the same," said Susan; and Sam silenced
some independent murmurs, about not minding Uncle John, by saying it
was minding Mamma.
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