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Tonight, I will be reading Anne of Green Gables.

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

Chapter 1. Mrs. Rachel Lynn is surprised.

Mrs. Rachel Lynn lived just where the Avonlea Main Road dipped down into a little hollow,

fringed with alders and ladies' airdrops, and traversed by a brook that had its source

a way back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place.

It was reputed to be an intricate headlong brook in its earlier course through those woods,

with dark secrets of pool and cascade.

But by the time it reached Lynn's Hollow, it was a quiet, well-conducted little stream,

for not even a brook could run past Mrs. Rachel Lynn's door without due regard for decency and decorum.

It probably was conscious that Mrs. Rachel was sitting at her window,

keeping a sharp eye on everything that passed,

from Brooks and children up, and that as she noticed anything odd or out of place,

she would never rest until she had ferreted out the wise and wherefores thereof.

There are plenty of people in Avonlea and out of it who can attend closely to their

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