And Minnie is the only good alto we have ! There are times when I am so exasperated that I feel tempted to wash my hands of the whole affair ; but after I dance round my room a few times in sheer rage I cool down and have another whack at it . Just at present I am racked with worry for fear the Isaac Reeses are taking whooping-cough . They have all got a dreadful cold and there are five of them who have important parts in the programme and if they go and develop whooping-cough what shall I do ? Dick Reese 's violin solo is to be one of our titbits and Kit Reese is in every tableau and the three small girls have the cutest flag-drill . I 've been toiling for weeks to train them in it , and now it seems likely that all my trouble will go for nothing . `` Jims cut his first tooth today . I am very glad , for he is nearly nine months old and Mary Vance has been insinuating that he is awfully backward about cutting his teeth . He has begun to creep but does n't crawl as most babies do . He trots about on all fours and carries things in his mouth like a little dog . Nobody can say he is n't up to schedule time in the matter of creeping anyway -- away ahead of it indeed , since ten months is Morgan 's average for creeping . He is so cute , it will be a shame if his dad never sees him . His hair is coming on nicely too , and I am not without hope that it will be curly . `` Just for a few minutes , while I 've been writing of Jims and the concert , I 've forgotten Ypres and the poison gas and the casualty lists . Now it all rushes back , worse than ever . Oh , if we could just know that Jem is all right ! I used to be so furious with Jem when he called me Spider . And now , if he would just come whistling through the hall and call out , ` Hello , Spider , ' as he used to do , I would think it the loveliest name in the world . '' Rilla put away her diary and went out to the garden . The spring evening was very lovely .
The long , green , seaward-looking glen was filled XXXXX dusk , and beyond it were meadows of sunset .
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