Diana looked at a certain little square window over the basement . `` That is the pantry window , I feel sure , '' she said , `` because this house is just like Uncle Charles ' at Newbridge , and that is their pantry window . The shade is n't down , so if we climbed up on the roof of that little house we could look into the pantry and might be able to see the platter . Do you think it would be any harm ? '' `` No , I do n't think so , '' decided Anne , after due reflection , `` since our motive is not idle curiosity . '' This important point of ethics being settled , Anne prepared to mount the aforesaid `` little house , '' a construction of lathes , with a peaked roof , which had in times past served as a habitation for ducks . The Copp girls had given up keeping ducks ... `` because they were such untidy birds '' . . . and the house had not been in use for some years , save as an abode of correction for setting hens . Although scrupulously whitewashed it had become somewhat shaky , and Anne felt rather dubious as she scrambled up from the vantage point of a keg placed on a box . `` I 'm afraid it wo n't bear my weight , '' she said as she gingerly stepped on the roof . `` Lean on the window sill , '' advised Diana , and Anne accordingly leaned . Much to her delight , she saw , as she peered through the pane , a willow-ware platter , exactly such as she was in quest of , on the shelf in front of the window . So much she saw before the catastrophe came . In her joy Anne forgot the precarious nature of her footing , incautiously ceased to lean on the window sill , gave an impulsive little hop of pleasure ... and the next moment she had crashed through the roof up to her armpits , and there she hung , quite unable to extricate herself . Diana dashed into the duck house and , seizing her unfortunate friend by the waist , tried to draw her down . `` Ow ... do n't , '' shrieked poor Anne . `` There are some long splinters sticking into me . See if you can put something under my feet ... then perhaps I can draw myself up . ''
Diana hastily dragged in the previously mentioned keg and Anne found that it was just sufficiently high XXXXX furnish a secure resting place for her feet .
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