ce. I hope
you'll never go there, Anne. But the way girls roam over the earth now
is something terrible. It always makes me think of Satan in the Book of
Job, going to and fro and walking up and down. I don't believe the Lord
ever intended it, that's what.

"Davy has been pretty good since you went away. One day he was bad and
Marilla punished him by making him wear Dora's apron all day, and then
he went and cut all Dora's aprons up. I spanked him for that and then he
went and chased my rooster to death.

"The MacPhersons have moved down to my place. She's a great housekeeper
and very particular. She's rooted all my June lilies up because she says
they make a garden look so untidy. Thomas set them lilies out when we
were married. Her husband seems a nice sort of a man, but she can't get
over being an old maid, that's what.

"Don't study too hard, and be sure and put your winter underclothes on
as soon as the weather gets cool. Marilla worries a lot about you, but I
tell her you've got a lot more sense than I ever thought you would have
at one time, and that you'll be all right."

Davy's letter plunged into a grievance at the start.

"Dear anne, please write and tell marilla not to tie me to the rale of
the bridge when I go fishing the boys make fun of me when she does. Its
awful lonesome here without you but grate fun in school. Jane andrews
is crosser than you. I scared mrs. lynde with a jacky lantern last nite.
She was offel mad and she was mad cause I chased her old rooster round
the yard till he fell down ded. I didn't mean to make him fall down ded.
What made him die, anne, I want to know. mrs. lynde threw him into the
pig pen she mite of sold him to mr. blair. mr. blair is giving 50 sense
apeace for good ded roosters now. I herd mrs. lynde asking the minister
to pray for her. What did she do that was so bad, anne, I want to know.
I've got a kite with a magnificent tail, anne. Milty bolter told me a
grate story in school yesterday. it is troo. old Joe Mosey and Leon were
playing cards one nite last week in the woods. The cards were on a stump
and a big black man bigger than the trees come along and grabbed the
cards and the stump and disapered with a noys like thunder. Ill bet they
were skared. Milty says the black man was the old harry. was he, anne, I
want to know. Mr. kimball over at spenservale is very sick and will have
to go to the hospitable. please excuse me while I ask marilla if thats
spelled rite. M