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Mr Harrison had brought Ginger back, averring that the poor bird would be lonesoive everybody and everything, offered hirievously hurt and he rejected all overtures of friendship He sat moodily on his perch and ruffled his feathers up until he looked like a er?" asked Anne, who liked appropriate naeous plue

"My brother the sailor named him Maybe it had sohyou'd be surprised if you kne ood deal one way and another So habits but he can't be broken of them I've triedother people have tried

Soainst parrots Silly, ain't it? I like the would inducein the world,the last sentence at Anne as explosively as if he suspected her of soer up

Anne, however, was beginning to like the queer, fussy, fidgety little ood friends Mr

Harrison found out about the Improveht Go ahead There's lots of room for improvement in this settlementand in the people too"

"Oh, I don't know," flashed Anne To herself, or to her particular cronies, she ht admit that there were some small imperfections, easily removable, in Avonlea and its inhabitants But to hear a practical outsider like Mr Harrison saying it was an entirely different thing "I think Avonlea is a lovely place; and the people in it are very nice, too"

"I guess you've got a spice of te the flushed cheeks and indignant eyes opposite hioes with hair like yours, I reckon Avonlea is a pretty decent place or I wouldn't have located here; but I suppose even you will admit that it has SOME faults?"

"I like it all the better for them," said loyal Anne "I don't like places or people either that haven't any faults I think a truly perfect person would be very uninteresting Mrs Milton White says she never h about oneher husband's first wife Don't you think it must be very uncomfortable to be married to a man whose first as perfect?"