Marilla says she caught him hanging over the well-box four times today , trying to reach down to the dark . '' `` He 's a limb , '' declared Mr. Harrison . `` He came over here yesterday and pulled six feathers out of Ginger 's tail before I could get in from the barn . The poor bird has been moping ever since . Those children must be a sight of trouble to you folks . '' `` Everything that 's worth having is some trouble , '' said Anne , secretly resolving to forgive Davy 's next offence , whatever it might be , since he had avenged her on Ginger . Mr. Roger Pye brought the hall paint home that night and Mr. Joshua Pye , a surly , taciturn man , began painting the next day . He was not disturbed in his task . The hall was situated on what was called `` the lower road . '' In late autumn this road was always muddy and wet , and people going to Carmody traveled by the longer `` upper '' road . The hall was so closely surrounded by fir woods that it was invisible unless you were near it . Mr. Joshua Pye painted away in the solitude and independence that were so dear to his unsociable heart . Friday afternoon he finished his job and went home to Carmody . Soon after his departure Mrs. Rachel Lynde drove by , having braved the mud of the lower road out of curiosity to see what the hall looked like in its new coat of paint . When she rounded the spruce curve she saw . The sight affected Mrs. Lynde oddly . She dropped the reins , held up her hands , and said `` Gracious Providence ! '' She stared as if she could not believe her eyes . Then she laughed almost hysterically . `` There must be some mistake ... there must .
I knew those Pyes would make a mess XXXXX things . ''
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