But it was all my fault , and if people blame father for it after they read this they are not Christians and so I do not mind what they say . There is another thing I want to explain about before I stop . Mary Vance told me that Mr. Evan Boyd is blaming the Lew Baxters for stealing potatoes out of his field last fall . They did not touch his potatoes . They are very poor , but they are honest . It was us did it -- Jerry and Carl and I. Una was not with us at the time . We never thought it was stealing . We just wanted a few potatoes to cook over a fire in Rainbow Valley one evening to eat with our fried trout . Mr. Boyd 's field was the nearest , just between the valley and the village , so we climbed over his fence and pulled up some stalks . The potatoes were awful small , because Mr. Boyd did not put enough fertilizer on them and we had to pull up a lot of stalks before we got enough , and then they were not much bigger than marbles . Walter and Di Blythe helped us eat them , but they did not come along until we had them cooked and did not know where we got them , so they were not to blame at all , only us . We did n't mean any harm , but if it was stealing we are very sorry and we will pay Mr. Boyd for them if he will wait until we grow up . We never have any money now because we are not big enough to earn any , and Aunt Martha says it takes every cent of poor father 's salary , even when it is paid up regularly -- and it is n't often -- to run this house . But Mr. Boyd must not blame the Lew Baxters any more , when they were quite innocent , and give them a bad name . Yours respectfully , FAITH MEREDITH . '' CHAPTER XXVI . MISS CORNELIA GETS A NEW POINT OF VIEW `` Susan , after I 'm dead I 'm going to come back to earth every time when the daffodils blow in this garden , '' said Anne rapturously . `` Nobody may see me , but I 'll be here . If anybody is in the garden at the time -- I THINK I 'll come on an evening just like this , but it MIGHT be just at dawn -- a lovely , pale-pinky spring dawn -- they 'll just see the daffodils nodding wildly as if an extra gust of wind had blown past them , but it will be I . '' `` Indeed , Mrs. Dr. dear , you will not be thinking of flaunting worldly things like daffies after you are dead , '' said Susan .
`` And I do NOT believe XXXXX ghosts , seen or unseen . ''
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