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"Where are you going, all dressed up, Anne?" Davy wanted to know "You look bully in that dress"

Anne had coreen muslin

the first color she had worn since Matthew's death It beca out all the delicate, flower-like tints of her face and the gloss and burnish of her hair

"Davy, how many times have I told you that you e"

"TakeBut I's Besides, Paul is going with me and I fear you don't enjoy yourself in his company"

"Oh, I like Paul lots better'n I did," said Davy, beginning to ot pretty good ooder so much If I can keep on I'll catch up with hioodness 'Sides, Paul's real nice to us second pri boys ames"

"How came Paul to fall into the brook at noon hour yesterday?" asked Anne "I ure that I sent hi to find out what had happened"

"Well, it was partly a zacksident," explained Davy "He stuck his head in on purpose but the rest of him fell in zacksidentally We was all down at the brook and Prillie Rogerson gotshe's awful mean and horrid anyway, if she IS prettyand said that his grandht Paul wouldn't have hed, and Paul got awful red, 'cause Gracie's his girl, you know He's CLEAN GONE on herbrings her flowers and carries her books as far as the shore road He got as red as a beet and said his grand and his hair was born curly And then he laid down on the bank and stuck his head right into the spring to show the a horrified look on Marilla's face"it was the little one lower down But the bank's awful slippy and Paul went right in I tell you he made a bully splash

Oh, Anne, Anne, I didn't ht He made a SPLENDID splash But he looked so funny when he crawled out, all wet and h She looked sorry Gracie's a nice girl but she's got a snub nose When I get big enough to have a girl I won't have one with a snub noseI'll pick one with a pretty nose like yours, Anne"