It was last Sunday in Sunday School . The lesson was about Elijah and Elisha , and I up and asked Miss Rogerson where heaven was . Miss Rogerson looked awful offended . She was cross anyhow , because when she 'd asked us what Elijah left Elisha when he went to heaven Milty Boulter said , ` His old clo'es , ' and us fellows all laughed before we thought . I wish you could think first and do things afterwards , 'cause then you would n't do them . But Milty did n't mean to be disrespeckful . He just could n't think of the name of the thing . Miss Rogerson said heaven was where God was and I was n't to ask questions like that . Milty nudged me and said in a whisper , ` Heaven 's in Uncle Simon 's garret and I 'll esplain about it on the road home . ' So when we was coming home he esplained . Milty 's a great hand at esplaining things . Even if he do n't know anything about a thing he 'll make up a lot of stuff and so you get it esplained all the same . His mother is Mrs. Simon 's sister and he went with her to the funeral when his cousin , Jane Ellen , died . The minister said she 'd gone to heaven , though Milty says she was lying right before them in the coffin . But he s ` posed they carried the coffin to the garret afterwards . Well , when Milty and his mother went upstairs after it was all over to get her bonnet he asked her where heaven was that Jane Ellen had gone to , and she pointed right to the ceiling and said , ` Up there . ' Milty knew there was n't anything but the garret over the ceiling , so that 's how HE found out . And he 's been awful scared to go to his Uncle Simon 's ever since . '' Anne took Davy on her knee and did her best to straighten out this theological tangle also . She was much better fitted for the task than Marilla , for she remembered her own childhood and had an instinctive understanding of the curious ideas that seven-year-olds sometimes get about matters that are , of course , very plain and simple to grown up people .
She had just succeeded in convincing Davy that heaven was NOT XXXXX Simon Fletcher 's garret when Marilla came in from the garden , where she and Dora had been picking peas .
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