find enough in Holy Writ to preach about, that’s what.  What church do you attend, Anne?  I hope you go regularly.  People are apt to get so careless about church-going away from home, and I understand college students are great sinners in this respect.  I’m told many of them actually study their lessons on Sunday.  I hope you’ll never sink that low, Anne.  Remember how you were brought up.  And be very careful what friends you make.  You never know what sort of creatures are in them colleges.  Outwardly they may be as whited sepulchers and inwardly as ravening wolves, that’s what.  You’d better not have anything to say to any young man who isn’t from the Island.

“I forgot to tell you what happened the day the minister called here.  It was the funniest thing I ever saw.  I said to Marilla, ’If Anne had been here wouldn’t she have had a laugh?’ Even Marilla laughed.  You know he’s a very short, fat little man with bow legs.  Well, that old pig of Mr. Harrison’s—­the big, tall one—­had wandered over here that day again and broke into the yard, and it got into the back porch, unbeknowns to us, and it was there when the minister appeared in the doorway.  It made one wild bolt to get out, but there was nowhere to bolt to except between them bow legs.  So there it went, and, being as it was so big and the minister so little, it took him clean off his feet and carried him away.  His hat went one way and his cane another, just as Marilla and I got to the door.  I’ll never forget the look of him.  And that poor pig was near scared to death.  I’ll never be able to read that account in the Bible of the swine that rushed madly down the steep place into the sea without seeing Mr. Harrison’s pig careering down the hill with that minister.  I guess the pig thought he had the Old Boy on his back instead of inside of him.  I was thankful the twins weren’t about.  It wouldn’t have been the right thing for them to have seen a minister in such an undignified predicament.  Just before they got to the brook the minister jumped off or fell off.  The pig rushed through the brook like mad and up through the woods.  Marilla and I run down and helped the minister get up and brush his coat.  He wasn’t hurt, but he was mad.  He seemed to hold Marilla and me responsible for it all, though we told him the pig didn’t belong to us, and had been pestering us all summer.  Besides, what did he come to the back door for?  You’d never have caught Mr. Allan doing that.  It’ll be a long time before we get a man like Mr. Allan.  But it’s an ill wind that blows no good.  We’ve never seen hoof or hair of that pig since, and it’s my belief we never will.

“Things is pretty quiet in Avonlea.  I don’t find Green Gables as lonesome as I expected.  I think I’ll start another cotton warp quilt this winter.  Mrs. Silas Sloane has a handsome new apple-leaf pattern.

“When I feel that I must have some excitement I read the murder trials in that Boston paper my niece sends me.  I never used to do it, but they’re real interesting.  The States must be an awful place.  I hope you’ll never go there, Anne.  But the way girls roam over the earth now is something terrible.  It always makes me think of Satan in the Book of Job, going to and fro and walking up and down.  I don’t believe the Lord ever intended it, that’s what.