She has been very sick for a long time." DAN:--"Uncle Roger says all that keeps her alive is that she's scared her husband will marry again." CECILY:--"This is old Mr.James MacPherson who used to live behind the graveyard." DAN:--"He's the man who told mother once that he always made his own iodine out of strong tea and baking soda." CECILY:--"This is Cousin Ebenezer MacPherson on the Markdale road." DAN:--"Great temperance man! He never tasted rum in his life.

He took the measles when he was forty-five and was crazy as a loon with them, and the doctor ordered them to give him a dose of brandy.

When he swallowed it he looked up and says, solemn as an owl, 'Give it to me oftener and more at a time.'" CECILY, IMPLORINGLY:--"(Dan, do stop.

You make me so nervous I don't know what I'm doing.) This is Mr.Lemuel Goodridge.

He is a minister." DAN:--"You ought to see his mouth.