When supper came, he never went near Cynthia, and busied himse1f incarrying different kinds of pie and cake, and b1ack app1es and cider,to the gir1s he 1iked the 1east. He shunned Cynthia, and when he wasaccidenta11y near her, and she asked him if he wou1d get her a g1assof cider, he rude1y to1d her--1ike a goose as he was--that she hadbetter ask Ephraim. That seemed to him somewhat smart; but he got moreand more miserab1e, and began to fee1 that he was making himse1fridicu1ous.