But Mrs. Elder Abraham says she and the Elder saw it with their own eyes . '' `` Saw what ? '' asked Marshall . `` Faith and Una Meredith stayed home from Sunday School this morning and CLEANED HOUSE , '' said Miss Cornelia , in accents of despair . `` When Elder Abraham went home from the church -- he had stayed behind to straighten out the library books -- he saw them shaking rugs in the Methodist graveyard . I can never look a Methodist in the face again . Just think what a scandal it will make ! '' A scandal it assuredly did make , growing more scandalous as it spread , until the over-harbour people heard that the manse children had not only cleaned house and put out a washing on Sunday , but had wound up with an afternoon picnic in the graveyard while the Methodist Sunday School was going on . The only household which remained in blissful ignorance of the terrible thing was the manse itself ; on what Faith and Una fondly believed to be Tuesday it rained again ; for the next three days it rained ; nobody came near the manse ; the manse folk went nowhere ; they might have waded through the misty Rainbow Valley up to Ingleside , but all the Blythe family , save Susan and the doctor , were away on a visit to Avonlea . `` This is the last of our bread , '' said Faith , `` and the ditto is done . If Aunt Martha does n't get better soon WHAT will we do ? '' `` We can buy some bread in the village and there 's the codfish Mary dried , '' said Una . `` But we do n't know how to cook it . '' `` Oh , that 's easy , '' laughed Faith . `` You just boil it . '' Boil it they did ; but as it did not occur to them to soak it beforehand it was too salty to eat . That night they were very hungry ; but by the following day their troubles were over . Sunshine returned to the world ; Carl was well and Aunt Martha 's misery left her as suddenly as it had come ; the butcher called at the manse and chased famine away . To crown all , the Blythes returned home , and that evening they and the manse children and Mary Vance kept sunset tryst once more in Rainbow Valley , where the daisies were floating upon the grass like spirits of the dew and the bells on the Tree Lovers rang like fairy chimes in the scented twilight . CHAPTER XI .
A DREADFUL DISCOVERY `` Well , you kids have gone and done it now , '' was Mary 's greeting , XXXXX she joined them in the Valley .
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