I 've been picking chickens with my hands but in imagination I 've been roaming the Milky Way . '' `` I thought you 'd scattered more feathers over the floor than usual , '' remarked Marilla . Then Anne put Davy to bed and made him promise that he would behave perfectly the next day . `` If I 'm as good as good can be all day tomorrow will you let me be just as bad as I like all the next day ? '' asked Davy . `` I could n't do that , '' said Anne discreetly , `` but I 'll take you and Dora for a row in the flat right to the bottom of the pond , and we 'll go ashore on the sandhills and have a picnic . '' `` It 's a bargain , '' said Davy . `` I 'll be good , you bet . I meant to go over to Mr. Harrison 's and fire peas from my new popgun at Ginger but another day 'll do as well . I espect it will be just like Sunday , but a picnic at the shore 'll make up for THAT . '' XVII A Chapter of Accidents Anne woke three times in the night and made pilgrimages to her window to make sure that Uncle Abe 's prediction was not coming true . Finally the morning dawned pearly and lustrous in a sky full of silver sheen and radiance , and the wonderful day had arrived . Diana appeared soon after breakfast , with a basket of flowers over one arm and HER muslin dress over the other ... for it would not do to don it until all the dinner preparations were completed . Meanwhile she wore her afternoon pink print and a lawn apron fearfully and wonderfully ruffled and frilled ; and very neat and pretty and rosy she was . `` You look simply sweet , '' said Anne admiringly . Diana sighed . `` But I 've had to let out every one of my dresses AGAIN . I weigh four pounds more than I did in July . Anne , WHERE will this end ? Mrs. Morgan 's heroines are all tall and slender . ''
`` Well , let 's forget our troubles and think of our mercies , '' said XXXXX gaily .
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