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"Yes; and oh, Marilla, may I cook every bit of the dinnerfor the author of 'The Rosebud Garden,' if it is only to cook a dinner for her You won'tover a hot fire in July that it would vex me very much to have someone else do it You're quite welcome to the job"

"Oh, thank you," said Anne, as if Marilla had just conferred a treht"

"You'd better not try to put on too h-flown sound of 'rief if you do"

"Oh, I' to do or have things we don't usually have on festal occasions," assured Anne

"That would be affectation, and, although I know I haven't as irl of seventeen and a schoolteacher ought to have, I' as nice and dainty as possible Davy-boy, don't leave those peapods on the back stairssoin withyou know I can make lovely cream-of-onion soupand then a couple of roast fowls I'll have the thite roosters I have real affection for those roosters and they've been pets ever since the gray hen hatched out just the two of themlittle balls of yellon

But I know they would have to be sacrificed sometime, and surely there couldn't be a worthier occasion than this But oh, Marilla, _I_ cannot kill thean's sake I'll have to ask John Henry Carter to come over and do it for me"

"I'll do it," volunteered Davy, "if Marilla'll hold thee the axe It's awful jolly fun to see the about after their heads are cut off"

"Then I'll have peas and beans and creaetables," resumed Anne, "and for dessert, lemon pie hipped creaers I'll ers tomorrow and do up ht, for she'll want to do up hers Mrs Morgan's heroines are nearly always dressed in white muslin, and Diana and I have always resolved that that e would wear if we ever met her It will be such a delicate compliment, don't you think? Davy, dear, you mustn't poke peapods into the cracks of the floor I must ask Mr and Mrs Allan and Miss Stacy to dinner, too, for they're all very anxious to meet Mrs