What fun we did have at our meetings ! Will you ever forget the blue hall and Judson Parker 's scheme for painting medicine advertisements on his fence ? '' `` I do n't know that I 'm wholly grateful to the A. V. I. S. in the matter of the telephone , '' said Anne . `` Oh , I know it 's most convenient -- even more so than our old device of signalling to each other by flashes of candlelight ! And , as Mrs. Rachel says , ` Avonlea must keep up with the procession , that 's what . ' But somehow I feel as if I did n't want Avonlea spoiled by what Mr. Harrison , when he wants to be witty , calls ` modern inconveniences . ' I should like to have it kept always just as it was in the dear old years . That 's foolish -- and sentimental -- and impossible . So I shall immediately become wise and practical and possible . The telephone , as Mr. Harrison concedes , is ' a buster of a good thing ' -- even if you do know that probably half a dozen interested people are listening along the line . '' `` That 's the worst of it , '' sighed Diana . `` It 's so annoying to hear the receivers going down whenever you ring anyone up . They say Mrs. Harmon Andrews insisted that their ` phone should be put in their kitchen just so that she could listen whenever it rang and keep an eye on the dinner at the same time . Today , when you called me , I distinctly heard that queer clock of the Pyes ' striking . So no doubt Josie or Gertie was listening . '' `` Oh , so that is why you said , ` You 've got a new clock at Green Gables , have n't you ? ' I could n't imagine what you meant . I heard a vicious click as soon as you had spoken . I suppose it was the Pye receiver being hung up with profane energy . Well , never mind the Pyes .
As Mrs. XXXXX says , ` Pyes they always were and Pyes they always will be , world without end , amen . '
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