`` Everything is going up scandalously , '' sighed Stella . `` Never mind . Thank goodness air and salvation are still free , '' said Aunt Jamesina . `` And so is laughter , '' added Anne . `` There 's no tax on it yet and that is well , because you 're all going to laugh presently . I 'm going to read you Davy 's letter . His spelling has improved immensely this past year , though he is not strong on apostrophes , and he certainly possesses the gift of writing an interesting letter . Listen and laugh , before we settle down to the evening 's study-grind . '' `` Dear Anne , '' ran Davy 's letter , `` I take my pen to tell you that we are all pretty well and hope this will find you the same . It 's snowing some today and Marilla says the old woman in the sky is shaking her feather beds . Is the old woman in the sky God 's wife , Anne ? I want to know . `` Mrs. Lynde has been real sick but she is better now . She fell down the cellar stairs last week . When she fell she grabbed hold of the shelf with all the milk pails and stewpans on it , and it gave way and went down with her and made a splendid crash . Marilla thought it was an earthquake at first . `` One of the stewpans was all dinged up and Mrs. Lynde straned her ribs . The doctor came and gave her medicine to rub on her ribs but she did n't under stand him and took it all inside instead . The doctor said it was a wonder it dident kill her but it dident and it cured her ribs and Mrs. Lynde says doctors dont know much anyhow . But we couldent fix up the stewpan .
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