Felicity says she ca n't see that it makes any difference where you tell them , but oh , it does . I wish you had been there to hear it too , but when you are well I will tell it over again for you . `` I am going to call the southernwood ` appleringie ' after this . Beverley says that is what they call it in Scotland , and I think it sounds so much more poetical than southernwood . Felicity says the right name is ` Boy 's Love , ' but I think that sounds silly . `` Oh , Peter , shadows are such pretty things . The orchard is full of them this very minute . Sometimes they are so still you would think them asleep . Then they go laughing and skipping . Outside , in the oat field , they are always chasing each other . They are the wild shadows . The shadows in the orchard are the tame shadows . `` Everything seems to be rather tired growing except the spruces and chrysanthemums in Aunt Olivia 's garden . The sunshine is so thick and yellow and lazy , and the crickets sing all day long . The birds are nearly all gone and most of the maple leaves have fallen . `` Just to make you laugh I 'll write you a little story I heard Uncle Alec telling last night . It was about Elder Frewen 's grandfather taking a pair of rope reins to lead a piano home . Everybody laughed except Aunt Janet . Old Mr. Frewen was HER grandfather too , and she would n't laugh . One day when old Mr. Frewen was a young man of eighteen his father came home and said , ` Sandy , I bought a piano at Simon Ward 's sale to-day .
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