`` I heard Marilla say she was it , herself , the other day . '' `` If you mean ECONOMICAL , it 's a VERY different thing from being stingy . It is an excellent trait in a person if she is economical . If Marilla had been stingy she would n't have taken you and Dora when your mother died . Would you have liked to live with Mrs. Wiggins ? '' `` You just bet I would n't ! '' Davy was emphatic on that point . `` Nor I do n't want to go out to Uncle Richard neither . I 'd far rather live here , even if Marilla is that long-tailed word when it comes to jam , 'cause YOU 'RE here , Anne . Say , Anne , wo n't you tell me a story ` fore I go to sleep ? I do n't want a fairy story . They 're all right for girls , I s ` pose , but I want something exciting ... lots of killing and shooting in it , and a house on fire , and i n'trusting things like that . '' Fortunately for Anne , Marilla called out at this moment from her room . `` Anne , Diana 's signaling at a great rate . You 'd better see what she wants . '' Anne ran to the east gable and saw flashes of light coming through the twilight from Diana 's window in groups of five , which meant , according to their old childish code , `` Come over at once for I have something important to reveal . '' Anne threw her white shawl over her head and hastened through the Haunted Wood and across Mr. Bell 's pasture corner to Orchard Slope . `` I 've good news for you , Anne , '' said Diana . `` Mother and I have just got home from Carmody , and I saw Mary Sentner from Spencer vale in Mr. Blair 's store . She says the old Copp girls on the Tory Road have a willow-ware platter and she thinks it 's exactly like the one we had at the supper .
She says they 'll likely sell it , for Martha Copp has never been known XXXXX keep anything she COULD sell ; but if they wo n't there 's a platter at Wesley Keyson 's at Spencervale and she knows they 'd sell it , but she is n't sure it 's just the same kind as Aunt Josephine 's . ''
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