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THE GIRLS CLEAN HOUSE 109do her sums! We'll get square then. Come on, let'sput the things back in.I'm tired to death and I don'tbelieve the rooms will look much better than before westarted though I shook out pecksgraveyard.I hate house-cleaning."of dust in theIt was two o'clock before the tired girls finished thetwo rooms. They got a dreary bite in the kitchen andintended to wash the dishes at once. But Faith happenedto pick up a new story book Di Blythe had lenther and was lost to the world until sunset. Una tooka cup of rank tea up to Carl but found him asleep so;she curled herself up on Jerry's bed and went to sleeptoo. Meanwhile, a weird story flew through Glen St.Mary and folks asked each other seriously what wasto be done with those manse youngsters."This is past laughing at, believe me," said MissCornelia to her husband, with a heavy sigh."I couldn'tbelieve it at first. Miranda Drew brought the storyhome from the Methodist Sunday School this afternoonand I simply scoffed at it. But Mrs. Elder Abrahamsays she and the Elder saw it with their owneyes.""Saw what ?" asked Marshall."Faith and Una Meredith stayed home from SundaySchool this morning and cleaned house," said Miss"When Elder AbrahamCornelia, in accents of despair.went home from the church he had stayed behindto straighten out the library bookshe saw them shakingrugs in the Methodist graveyard.I can never look