Mrs. Simon Fletcher is going to lend us her mother 's braided rugs and Mrs. Levi Boulter some old chairs and Aunt Mary Shaw will lend us her cupboard with the glass doors . I suppose Marilla will let us have her brass candlesticks ? And we want all the old dishes we can get . Mrs. Allan is specially set on having a real blue willow ware platter if we can find one . But nobody seems to have one . Do you know where we could get one ? '' `` Miss Josephine Barry has one . I 'll write and ask her if she 'll lend it for the occasion , '' said Anne . `` Well , I wish you would . I guess we 'll have the supper in about a fortnight 's time . Uncle Abe Andrews is prophesying rain and storms for about that time ; and that 's a pretty sure sign we 'll have fine weather . '' The said `` Uncle Abe , '' it may be mentioned , was at least like other prophets in that he had small honor in his own country . He was , in fact , considered in the light of a standing joke , for few of his weather predictions were ever fulfilled . Mr. Elisha Wright , who labored under the impression that he was a local wit , used to say that nobody in Avonlea ever thought of looking in the Charlottetown dailies for weather probabilities . No ; they just asked Uncle Abe what it was going to be tomorrow and expected the opposite . Nothing daunted , Uncle Abe kept on prophesying . `` We want to have the fair over before the election comes off , '' continued Mrs. Lynde , `` for the candidates will be sure to come and spend lots of money . The Tories are bribing right and left , so they might as well be given a chance to spend their money honestly for once . '' Anne was a red-hot Conservative , out of loyalty to Matthew 's memory , but she said nothing . She knew better than to get Mrs. Lynde started on politics .
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