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Far and as a white carpet, knee deep, of hailstones; drifts of them were heaped up under the eaves and on the steps When, three or four days later, those hailstones ht was plainly seen, for every green growing thing in the field or garden was cut off Not only was every blossohs and branches renched away And out of the two hundred trees set out by the Ireater number were snapped off or torn to shreds

"Can it possibly be the sao?" asked Anne, dazedly "It MUST have taken longer than that to play such havoc"

"The like of this has never been known in Prince Edward Island," said Marilla, "never I reirl there was a bad stor to this We'll hear of terrible destruction, you ht out in it," murmured Anne anxiously As it was discovered later, none of the children had been, since all those who had any distance to go had taken Mr Andrews' excellent advice and sought refuge at the post office

"There co through the hailstones with a rather scared grin

"Oh, ain't this awful, Miss Cuthbert? Mr Harrison sent ht"

"We're none of us killed," said Marilla griot off equally well"

"Yas' knocked over the kitchen chie and tore a hole in the floor and went into the sullar

Yas'er hurt?" queried Anne

"Yas'm He was hurt pretty bad He was killed" Later on Anne went over to co by the table, stroking Ginger's gay dead body with a treer won't call you any more nained herself crying on Ginger's account, but the tears came into her eyes

"He was all the company I had, Anneand now he's dead Well, well, I'm an old fool to care soto say sobut don't If you did I'd cry like a baby Hasn't this been a terrible storain See all his life that never happened cah, don't it? Look at the et some boards to patch up that hole in the floor"