When supper came, he never went near Cynthia, and busied himself incarrying different kinds of pie and cake, and black apples and cider,to the girls he liked the least. He shunned Cynthia, and when he wasaccidentally near her, and she asked him if he would get her a glassof cider, he rudely told her--like a goose as he was--that she hadbetter ask Ephraim. That seemed to him quite smart; but he got moreand more miserable, and began to feel that he was making himselfridiculous.