It seemed a pity to waste him . And say , was n't it fun to hear that girl yell ? '' Tuesday afternoon the Aid Society met at Green Gables . Anne hurried home from school , for she knew that Marilla would need all the assistance she could give . Dora , neat and proper , in her nicely starched white dress and black sash , was sitting with the members of the Aid in the parlor , speaking demurely when spoken to , keeping silence when not , and in every way comporting herself as a model child . Davy , blissfully dirty , was making mud pies in the barnyard . `` I told him he might , '' said Marilla wearily . `` I thought it would keep him out of worse mischief . He can only get dirty at that . We 'll have our teas over before we call him to his . Dora can have hers with us , but I would never dare to let Davy sit down at the table with all the Aids here . '' When Anne went to call the Aids to tea she found that Dora was not in the parlor . Mrs. Jasper Bell said Davy had come to the front door and called her out . A hasty consultation with Marilla in the pantry resulted in a decision to let both children have their teas together later on . Tea was half over when the dining room was invaded by a forlorn figure . Marilla and Anne stared in dismay , the Aids in amazement . Could that be Dora ... that sobbing nondescript in a drenched , dripping dress and hair from which the water was streaming on Marilla 's new coin-spot rug ? `` Dora , what has happened to you ? '' cried Anne , with a guilty glance at Mrs. Jasper Bell , whose family was said to be the only one in the world in which accidents never occurred . `` Davy made me walk the pigpen fence , '' wailed Dora .
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