I should have a guilty conscience if I thought this closet was in disorder when Mrs. Morgan was in the house . Ever since we read ` Golden Keys , ' last April , Diana and I have taken that verse for our motto too . '' That night John Henry Carter and Davy between them contrived to execute the two white roosters , and Anne dressed them , the usually distasteful task glorified in her eyes by the destination of the plump birds . `` I do n't like picking fowls , '' she told Marilla , `` but is n't it fortunate we do n't have to put our souls into what our hands may be doing ? I 've been picking chickens with my hands but in imagination I 've been roaming the Milky Way . '' `` I thought you 'd scattered more feathers over the floor than usual , '' remarked Marilla . Then Anne put Davy to bed and made him promise that he would behave perfectly the next day . `` If I 'm as good as good can be all day tomorrow will you let me be just as bad as I like all the next day ? '' asked Davy . `` I could n't do that , '' said Anne discreetly , `` but I 'll take you and Dora for a row in the flat right to the bottom of the pond , and we 'll go ashore on the sandhills and have a picnic . '' `` It 's a bargain , '' said Davy . `` I 'll be good , you bet . I meant to go over to Mr. Harrison 's and fire peas from my new popgun at Ginger but another day 'll do as well . I espect it will be just like Sunday , but a picnic at the shore 'll make up for THAT . '' XVII A Chapter of Accidents Anne woke three times in the night and made pilgrimages to her window to make sure that Uncle Abe 's prediction was not coming true . Finally the morning dawned pearly and lustrous in a sky full of silver sheen and radiance , and the wonderful day had arrived . Diana appeared soon after breakfast , with a basket of flowers over one arm and HER muslin dress over the other ... for it would not do to don it until all the dinner preparations were completed . Meanwhile she wore her afternoon pink print and a lawn apron fearfully and wonderfully ruffled and frilled ; and very neat and pretty and rosy she was . `` You look simply sweet , '' said Anne admiringly . Diana sighed .
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