Was n't that a splendid tea we had , teacher ? Grandma says a boy should n't be thinking about what he gets to eat , but he ca n't help it sometimes when he is real hungry . YOU know , teacher . I do n't think Miss Lavendar would make a boy eat porridge for breakfast if he did n't like it . She 'd get things for him he did like . But of course '' ... Paul was nothing if not fair-minded ... `` that might n't be very good for him . It 's very nice for a change though , teacher . YOU know . '' XXIV A Prophet in His Own Country One May day Avonlea folks were mildly excited over some `` Avonlea Notes , '' signed `` Observer , '' which appeared in the Charlottetown ` Daily Enterprise . ' Gossip ascribed the authorship thereof to Charlie Sloane , partly because the said Charlie had indulged in similar literary flights in times past , and partly because one of the notes seemed to embody a sneer at Gilbert Blythe . Avonlea juvenile society persisted in regarding Gilbert Blythe and Charlie Sloane as rivals in the good graces of a certain damsel with gray eyes and an imagination . Gossip , as usual , was wrong . Gilbert Blythe , aided and abetted by Anne , had written the notes , putting in the one about himself as a blind . Only two of the notes have any bearing on this history : `` Rumor has it that there will be a wedding in our village ere the daisies are in bloom . A new and highly respected citizen will lead to the hymeneal altar one of our most popular ladies . `` Uncle Abe , our well-known weather prophet , predicts a violent storm of thunder and lightning for the evening of the twenty-third of May , beginning at seven o'clock sharp . The area of the storm will extend over the greater part of the Province . People traveling that evening will do well to take umbrellas and mackintoshes with them . '' `` Uncle Abe really has predicted a storm for sometime this spring , '' said Gilbert , `` but do you suppose Mr. Harrison really does go to see Isabella Andrews ? '' `` No , '' said Anne , laughing , `` I 'm sure he only goes to play checkers with Mr. Harrison Andrews , but Mrs. Lynde says she knows Isabella Andrews must be going to get married , she 's in such good spirits this spring . ''
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