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"I've nothing else to do," protested Davy "I can't eat anyyou and Anne eat"

"Well, you and Dora go out and give the hens their wheat," said Marilla

"And don't you try to pull any more feathers out of the white rooster's tail either"

"I wanted some feathers for an Injun headdress," said Davy sulkily

"Milty Boulter has a dandy one, ive hiht let ot ever so many more'n he wants"

"You arret," said Anne, "and I'll dye thereen and red and yellow for you"

"You do spoil that boy dreadfully," said Marilla, when Davy, with a radiant face, had followed prireat strides in the past six years; but she had not yet been able to rid herself of the idea that it was very bad for a child to have too ed

"All the boys of his class have Indian headdresses, and Davy wants one too," said Anne "_I_ kno it feelsI'll never forget how I used to long for puffed sleeves when all the other girls had the every day Think what a difference there is in hiet into as ed Marilla "I suppose he works off the tendency with the other boys But it's a wonder to me we haven't heard from Richard Keith before this Never a word since last May"

"I'll be afraid to hear fro to clear away the dishes "If a letter should co it, for fear it would tell us to send the twins to him"

A month later a letter did come But it was not from Richard Keith A friend of his wrote to say that Richard Keith had died of consuht previously The writer of the letter was the executor of his will and by that will the sum of two thousand dollars was left to Miss Marilla Cuthbert in trust for David and Dora Keith until they cae or married In the meantime the interest was to be used for theirin connection with a death," said Anne soberly "I'lad that we can keep the twins"