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Tonight, I will be reading a short story

by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

Abel and his great adventure.

So lie down, close your eyes, and let me read you a story.

Come out of doors, master, come out of doors.

I can't talk or think right with walls around me.

Never could.

Let's go out to the garden.

These were almost the first words I ever heard Abel Armstrong say. He was a member of the board of school trustees in Stillwater, and I had not met him before this late May evening, when I had gone

down to confer with him upon some small matter of business, for I was the new schoolmaster

in Stillwater, having taken the school for the summer term. It was a rather lonely country district,

a fact of which I was glad, for life had been going

somewhat awry with me, and my heart was sore and rebellious over many things that have nothing

to do with this narration.

Stillwater offered time and opportunity for healing and counsel.

Yet looking back, I doubt if I should ever

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