When she reached the yard at Green Gables Mrs. Lynde 's loud , decided tones floated out through the open kitchen window . `` Mrs. Lynde has come up to give me good advice about tomorrow , '' thought Anne with a grimace , `` but I do n't believe I 'll go in . Her advice is much like pepper , I think ... excellent in small quantities but rather scorching in her doses . I 'll run over and have a chat with Mr. Harrison instead . '' This was not the first time Anne had run over and chatted with Mr. Harrison since the notable affair of the Jersey cow . She had been there several evenings and Mr. Harrison and she were very good friends , although there were times and seasons when Anne found the outspokenness on which he prided himself rather trying . Ginger still continued to regard her with suspicion , and never failed to greet her sarcastically as `` redheaded snippet . '' Mr. Harrison had tried vainly to break him of the habit by jumping excitedly up whenever he saw Anne coming and exclaiming , `` Bless my soul , here 's that pretty little girl again , '' or something equally flattering . But Ginger saw through the scheme and scorned it . Anne was never to know how many compliments Mr. Harrison paid her behind her back . He certainly never paid her any to her face . `` Well , I suppose you 've been back in the woods laying in a supply of switches for tomorrow ? '' was his greeting as Anne came up the veranda steps . `` No , indeed , '' said Anne indignantly . She was an excellent target for teasing because she always took things so seriously . `` I shall never have a switch in my school , Mr. Harrison . Of course , I shall have to have a pointer , but I shall use it for pointing ONLY . '' `` So you mean to strap them instead ? Well , I do n't know but you 're right . A switch stings more at the time but the strap smarts longer , that 's a fact . ''
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