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Fortunately for Anne, Marilla called out at this reat rate You'd better see what she wants"

Anne ran to the east gable and saw flashes of light coroups of five, whichto their old childish code, "Co important to reveal" Anne threw her white shawl over her head and hastened through the Haunted Wood and across Mr Bell's pasture corner to Orchard Slope

"I've good news for you, Anne," said Diana "Mother and I have just got home from Carmody, and I saw Mary Sentner froirls on the Tory Road have a are platter and she thinks it's exactly like the one we had at the supper She says they'll likely sell it, for Martha Copp has never been known to keep anything she COULD sell; but if they won't there's a platter at Wesley Keyson's at Spencervale and she knows they'd sell it, but she isn't sure it's just the saht over to Spencervale after it tomorrow," said Anne resolutely, "and you ht off o to town day after tomorrow and how can I face your Aunt Josephine without a are platter? It would be even worse than the ti on the spare roohed over the old norant and curious, I must refer theirls fared forth on their platter hunting expedition It was ten miles to Spencervale and the day was not especially pleasant for traveling It was very warht have been expected after six weeks of dry weather

"Oh, I do wish it would rain soon," sighed Anne "Everything is so parched up The poor fields just see out their hands pleading for rain As for o into it I suppose I shouldn't co so Mr Harrison says his pastures are so scorched up that his poor cows can hardly get a bite to eat and he feels guilty of cruelty to animals every time he meets their eyes"

After a wearisoirls reached Spencervale and turned down the "Tory" Roada green, solitary highhere the strips of grass between the wheel tracks bore evidence to lack of travel Alongspruces crowding down to the roadith here and there a break where the back field of a Spencervale farm came out to the fence or an expanse of stuoldenrod