Davy , however , was perfectly happy . He reveled in getting out in the morning and shoveling out the paths to the well and henhouse . He gloried in the Christmas-tide delicacies which Marilla and Mrs. Lynde vied with each other in preparing for Anne , and he was reading an enthralling tale , in a school library book , of a wonderful hero who seemed blessed with a miraculous faculty for getting into scrapes from which he was usually delivered by an earthquake or a volcanic explosion , which blew him high and dry out of his troubles , landed him in a fortune , and closed the story with proper ECLAT . `` I tell you it 's a bully story , Anne , '' he said ecstatically . `` I 'd ever so much rather read it than the Bible . '' `` Would you ? '' smiled Anne . Davy peered curiously at her . `` You do n't seem a bit shocked , Anne . Mrs. Lynde was awful shocked when I said it to her . '' `` No , I 'm not shocked , Davy . I think it 's quite natural that a nine-year-old boy would sooner read an adventure story than the Bible . But when you are older I hope and think that you will realize what a wonderful book the Bible is . '' `` Oh , I think some parts of it are fine , '' conceded Davy . `` That story about Joseph now -- it 's bully . But if I 'd been Joseph I would n't have forgive the brothers . No , siree , Anne . I 'd have cut all their heads off . Mrs. Lynde was awful mad when I said that and shut the Bible up and said she 'd never read me any more of it if I talked like that . So I do n't talk now when she reads it Sunday afternoons ; I just think things and say them to Milty Boulter next day in school .
I told Milty the story about Elisha and the bears and it scared him so he 's never made fun XXXXX Mr. Harrison 's bald head once .
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