`` I intend to get up extra early tomorrow morning , for I 've ever so much to do , '' said Anne virtuously . `` For one thing , I 'm going to shift the feathers from my old bedtick to the new one . I ought to have done it long ago but I 've just kept putting it off ... it 's such a detestable task . It 's a very bad habit to put off disagreeable things , and I never mean to again , or else I ca n't comfortably tell my pupils not to do it . That would be inconsistent . Then I want to make a cake for Mr. Harrison and finish my paper on gardens for the A.V.I.S. , and write Stella , and wash and starch my muslin dress , and make Dora 's new apron . '' `` You wo n't get half done , '' said Marilla pessimistically . `` I never yet planned to do a lot of things but something happened to prevent me . '' XX The Way It Often Happens Anne rose betimes the next morning and blithely greeted the fresh day , when the banners of the sunrise were shaken triumphantly across the pearly skies . Green Gables lay in a pool of sunshine , flecked with the dancing shadows of poplar and willow . Beyond the land was Mr. Harrison 's wheatfield , a great , windrippled expanse of pale gold . The world was so beautiful that Anne spent ten blissful minutes hanging idly over the garden gate drinking the loveliness in . After breakfast Marilla made ready for her journey . Dora was to go with her , having been long promised this treat . `` Now , Davy , you try to be a good boy and do n't bother Anne , '' she straitly charged him . `` If you are good I 'll bring you a striped candy cane from town . '' For alas , Marilla had stooped to the evil habit of bribing people to be good ! `` I wo n't be bad on purpose , but s ` posen I 'm bad zacksidentally ? '' Davy wanted to know . `` You 'll have to guard against accidents , '' admonished Marilla .
`` XXXXX , if Mr. Shearer comes today get a nice roast and some steak .
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