S.in the matter of the telephone," said Anne.

"Oh, I know it's most convenient--even more so than our old device of signalling to each other by flashes of candlelight! And, as Mrs.Rachel says, 'Avonlea must keep up with the procession, that's what.' But somehow I feel as if I didn't want Avonlea spoiled by what Mr.Harrison, when he wants to be witty, calls 'modern inconveniences.' I should like to have it kept always just as it was in the dear old years.

That's foolish--and sentimental--and impossible.

So I shall immediately become wise and practical and possible.

The telephone, as Mr.Harrison concedes, is 'a buster of a good thing'-- even if you do know that probably half a dozen interested people are listening along the line." "That's the worst of it," sighed Diana.