But it 's an ill wind that blows no good . We 've never seen hoof or hair of that pig since , and it 's my belief we never will . `` Things is pretty quiet in Avonlea . I do n't find Green Gables as lonesome as I expected . I think I 'll start another cotton warp quilt this winter . Mrs. Silas Sloane has a handsome new apple-leaf pattern . `` When I feel that I must have some excitement I read the murder trials in that Boston paper my niece sends me . I never used to do it , but they 're real interesting . The States must be an awful place . 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 do n'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 .
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