Davy , on the contrary , had a lively curiosity , and frequently asked questions which made Marilla tremble for his fate . `` Chester Sloane says we 'll do nothing all the time in heaven but walk around in white dresses and play on harps ; and he says he hopes he wo n't have to go till he 's an old man , 'cause maybe he 'll like it better then . And he thinks it will be horrid to wear dresses and I think so too . Why ca n't men angels wear trousers , Anne ? Chester Sloane is interested in those things , 'cause they 're going to make a minister of him . He 's got to be a minister 'cause his grandmother left the money to send him to college and he ca n't have it unless he is a minister . She thought a minister was such a ` spectable thing to have in a family . Chester says he does n't mind much ... though he 'd rather be a blacksmith ... but he 's bound to have all the fun he can before he begins to be a minister , 'cause he does n't expect to have much afterwards . I ai n't going to be a minister . I 'm going to be a storekeeper , like Mr. Blair , and keep heaps of candy and bananas . But I 'd rather like going to your kind of a heaven if they 'd let me play a mouth organ instead of a harp . Do you s ` pose they would ? '' `` Yes , I think they would if you wanted it , '' was all Anne could trust herself to say . The A.V.I.S. met at Mr. Harmon Andrews ' that evening and a full attendance had been requested , since important business was to be discussed . The A.V.I.S. was in a flourishing condition , and had already accomplished wonders . Early in the spring Mr. Major Spencer had redeemed his promise and had stumped , graded , and seeded down all the road front of his farm . A dozen other men , some prompted by a determination not to let a Spencer get ahead of them , others goaded into action by Improvers in their own households , had followed his example . The result was that there were long strips of smooth velvet turf where once had been unsightly undergrowth or brush . The farm fronts that had not been done looked so badly by contrast that their owners were secretly shamed into resolving to see what they could do another spring . The triangle of ground at the cross roads had also been cleared and seeded down , and Anne 's bed of geraniums , unharmed by any marauding cow , was already set out in the center .
Altogether , the Improvers thought that they were getting on beautifully , even if Mr. Levi Boulter , tactfully approached XXXXX a carefully selected committee in regard to the old house on his upper farm , did bluntly tell them that he was n't going to have it meddled with .
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