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Anne, walking ho, was joined by Mrs Lynde, as as usual cumbered with all the cares of church and state

"I've just been down to Tiet Alice Louise to help h she's too slow to stop quick, she's better than nobody But she's sick and can't co He's been dying for ten years and he'll go on dying for ten years more That kind can't even die and have done with itthey can't stick to anything, even to being sick, long enough to finish it

They're a terrible shiftless family and what is to become of thehed as if she rather doubted the extent of Providential knowledge on the subject

"Marilla was in about her eyes again Tuesday, wasn't she? What did the specialist think of thehtly "He says there is a great i her sight completely is past But he says she'll never be able to read ain How are your preparations for your bazaar co for a fair and supper, and Mrs

Lynde was the head and front of the enterprise

"Pretty welland that reminds me Mrs Allan thinks it would be nice to fix up a booth like an old-tihnuts, pie, and so on We're collecting old-fashioned fixings everywhere Mrs Sis and Mrs Levi Boulter some old chairs and Aunt Mary Shaill lend us her cupboard with the glass doors I suppose Marilla will let us have her brass candlesticks? And ant all the old dishes we can get Mrs

Allan is specially set on having a real blue are platter if we can find one But nobody seeet one?"

"Miss Josephine Barry has one I'll write and ask her if she'll lend it for the occasion," said Anne

"Well, I wish you would I guess we'll have the supper in about a fortnight's ti rain and storn we'll have fine weather"

The said "Uncle Abe," it may be mentioned, was at least like other prophets in that he had small honor in his own country He was, in fact, considered in the light of a standing joke, for few of his weather predictions were ever fulfilled Mr Elisha Wright, who labored under the impression that he was a local wit, used to say that nobody in Avonlea ever thought of looking in the Charlottetown dailies for weather probabilities No; they just asked Uncle Abe what it was going to be to daunted, Uncle Abe kept on prophesying