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Today we'll be continuing Anne of the island by Lucy Maud Montgomery chapter 17 A Letter from Davey it's beginning to snow, girls, said Phil, coming in 1 November evening.
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And there are the loveliest little stars and crosses all over the garden walk.
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I never noticed before what exquisite things snowflakes really are.
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One has time to notice things like that in the simple life.
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Bless you all for permitting me to live it.
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It's really delightful to feel worried because butter has gone up five cents a pound.
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Has it?
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Demanded Stella, who kept the household accounts.
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It has.
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And here's your butter.
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I'm getting quite expert at marketing.
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It's better fun than flirting, concluded Phil gravely.
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Everything is going up scandalously, sighed Stella.
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Never mind.
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Thank goodness air and salvation are still.
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Free, said Aunt James.
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And so is laughter, added Anne.
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There's no tax on it yet, and.
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That is well, because you're all going to laugh presently.
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I'm going to read you Davy's letter.
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His spelling has improved immensely this past.
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Year, though he is not strong on.
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Apostrophes and he certainly possesses the gift.
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Of writing an interesting letter.
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Listen and laugh before we settle down to the evening's study grind.
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Dear Anne Randavy's Letter, I take my pen to tell you that we are.
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All pretty well and hope this will find you the same.
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It's snowing some today and Marilla says.
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The old woman in the sky is.
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Shaking her feather beds.
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Is the old woman in the sky God's wife?
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Anne, I want to know.
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Mrs.
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Lynde has been real sick, but she is better now.
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She fell down the cellar stairs last week.
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When she fell she grabbed hold of the shelf with all the milk pails and stew pans on it and it gave way and went down with her and made a splendid crash.
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Marilla thought it was an earthquake at first.
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One of the stew pans was all dinged up and Mrs.
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Lynn strained her ribs.
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The doctor came and gave her medicine to rub on her ribs, but she didn't understand him and took it all inside instead.
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The doctor said it was a wonder it didn't kill her.
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But it didn't and it cured her ribs and mrs.
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Lynn says doctors don't know much anyhow.
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But we couldn't fix up the stew pan.
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Marilla had to throw it out.
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Thanksgiving was last week.
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There was no school, and we had a great dinner.
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I ate minced pie and roast turkey.
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And fruit cake and donuts and cheese and jam and chocolate cake.
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Marilla said I'd die, but I didn't.
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Dora had ear ache after it, only it wasn't in her ears, it was in her stomach.
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I didn't have earache anywhere.
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Our new teacher is a man.
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He does things for jokes.
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Last week he made all us third class boys write a composition on what kind of a wife we'd like to have and the girls on what kind of a husband he laughed fit to kill when he read them.
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This was mine.
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I thought you'd like to see it.
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The kind of wife I'd like to have.
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She must have good manners and get my meals on time and do what I tell her and always be very polite to me.
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She must be 15 years old.
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She must be good to the poor and keep her house tidy and be good tempered and go to church regularly.
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She must be very handsome and have curly hair.
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If I get a wife that is just what I like, I'll be an awful good husband to her.
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I think a woman ought to be awful good to her husband.
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Some poor women haven't any husbands.
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The end.
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I was at Mrs.
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Isaac Wright's funeral at White Sands last week.
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The husband of the corpse felt real sorry.
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Mrs.
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Lynde says Mrs.
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Wright's grandfather stole a sheep.
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But Marilla says we mustn't speak ill of the dead.
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Why mustn't we, Anne?
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I want to know.
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It's pretty safe, ain't it?
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Mrs.
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Lind was awful mad the other day because I asked her if she was alive in Noah's time.
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I didn't mean to hurt her feelings.
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I just wanted to know.
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Was she?
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Anne mr.
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Harrison wanted to get rid.
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Of his dog, so he hung him once.
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But he come to life and scooted for the barn while Mr.
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Harrison was digging the grave.
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So he hung him again and he stayed dead that time.
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Mr.
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Harrison has a new man working for him.
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He's awful awkward.
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Mr.
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Harrison says he is lefthanded in both his feet.
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Mr.
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Barry's hired man is lazy.
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Mrs.
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Barry says that, but Mr.
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Barry says he ain't lazy exactly.
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Only he thinks it easier to pray for things than to work for them.
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Mrs.
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Harmon, Andrew's prize pig that she talked so much of died in a fit.
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Mrs.
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Lynn says it was a judgment on her for pride but I think it was hard on the pig.
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Milthy Bolter has been sick.
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The doctor gave him medicine and it tasted horrid.
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I offered to take it for him for a quarter, but the Bolters are so mean milty says he'd rather take it himself and save his money.
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I asked Mrs.
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Bolter how a person would go about catching a man and she got awful mad and said she didn't know she never chased men.
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The avis is going to paint the hall again.
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They're tired of having it blue.
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The new minister was tear to tea last night.
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He took three pieces of pie.
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If I did that, Mrs.
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Lind would call me Piggy.
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He et so fast and took big bites.
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And Marilla is always telling me not to do that.
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Why can ministers do what boys can't?
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I want to know.
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I haven't any more news.
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Here are six kisses.
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XXXX Doris ends one.
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Here's hers.
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Your loving friend, Davy Keith.
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P.
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S.
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And who is the devil's father?
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I want to know.
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