L.M. Montgomery Quote
Said Una. That birch is such a place for birds and they sing like mad in the mornings. I'd take the Porter lot where there's so many children buried. I like lots of company, said Faith. Carl, where'd you? I'd rather not be buried at all, said Carl, but if I had to be I'd like the ant-bed. Ants are AWF'LY int'resting. How very good all the people who are buried here must have been, said Una, who had been reading the laudatory old epitaphs. There doesn't seem to be a single bad person in the whole graveyard. Methodists must be better than Presbyterians after all. Maybe the Methodists bury their bad people just like they do cats, suggested Carl. Maybe they don't bother bringing them to the graveyard at all. Nonsense, said Faith. The people that are buried here weren't any better than other folks, Una. But when anyone is dead you mustn't say anything of him but good or he'll come back and ha'nt you. Aunt Martha told me that. I asked father if it was true and he just looked through me and muttered,
Said Una. That birch is such a place for birds and they sing like mad in the mornings. I'd take the Porter lot where there's so many children buried. I like lots of company, said Faith. Carl, where'd you? I'd rather not be buried at all, said Carl, but if I had to be I'd like the ant-bed. Ants are AWF'LY int'resting. How very good all the people who are buried here must have been, said Una, who had been reading the laudatory old epitaphs. There doesn't seem to be a single bad person in the whole graveyard. Methodists must be better than Presbyterians after all. Maybe the Methodists bury their bad people just like they do cats, suggested Carl. Maybe they don't bother bringing them to the graveyard at all. Nonsense, said Faith. The people that are buried here weren't any better than other folks, Una. But when anyone is dead you mustn't say anything of him but good or he'll come back and ha'nt you. Aunt Martha told me that. I asked father if it was true and he just looked through me and muttered,
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