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1ALL things great are wound up with all things little. At first glance it might not seem that the decision of a certain
2Canadian Premier to include Prince Edward Island in a political tour could have much or anything to do with the fortunes
3of little Anne Shirley at Green Gables. But it had. It was a January the Premier came, to address his loyal supporters
4and such of his nonsupporters as chose to be present at the monster mass meeting held in Charlottetown. Most of the
5Avonlea people were on Premier's side of politics; hence on the night of the meeting nearly all the men and a goodly
6proportion of the women had gone to town thirty miles away. Mrs. Rachel Lynde had gone too. Mrs. Rachel Lynde was a
7red-hot politician and couldn't have believed that the political rally could be carried through without her, although
8she was on the opposite side of politics. So she went to town and took her husband--Thomas would be useful in looking
9after the horse--and Marilla Cuthbert with her. Marilla had a sneaking interest in politics herself, and as she thought
10it might be her only chance to see a real live Premier, she promptly took it, leaving Anne and Matthew to keep house
11until her return the following day. Hence, while Marilla and Mrs. Rachel were enjoying themselves hugely at the mass
12meeting, Anne and Matthew had the cheerful kitchen at Green Gables all to themselves. A bright fire was glowing in the
13old-fashioned Waterloo stove and blue-white frost crystals were shining on the windowpanes. Matthew nodded over a
14Farmers' Advocate on the sofa and Anne at the table studied her lessons with grim determination, despite sundry wistful
15glances at the clock shelf, where lay a new book that Jane Andrews had lent her that day. Jane had assured her that it
16was warranted to produce any number of thrills, or words to that effect, and Anne's fingers tingled to reach out for it.
17But that would mean Gilbert Blythe's triumph on the morrow. Anne turned her back on the clock shelf and tried to imagine
18it wasn't there. "Matthew, did you ever study geometry when you went to school?" "Well now, no, I didn't," said Matthew,
19coming out of his doze with a start. "I wish you had," sighed Anne, "because then you'd be able to sympathize with me.
20You can't sympathize properly if you've never studied it. It is casting a cloud over my whole life. I'm such a dunce at
21it, Matthew." "Well now, I dunno," said Matthew soothingly. "I guess you're all right at anything. Mr. Phillips told me
22last week in Blair's store at Carmody that you was the smartest scholar in school and was making rapid progress. 'Rapid
23progress' was his very words. There's them as runs down Teddy Phillips and says he ain't much of a teacher, but I guess
24he's all right." Matthew would have thought anyone who praised Anne was "all right." "I'm sure I'd get on better with
25geometry if only he wouldn't change the letters," complained Anne. "I learn the proposition off by heart and then he
26draws it on the blackboard and puts different letters from what are in the book and I get all mixed up. I don't think a
27teacher should take such a mean advantage, do you? We're studying agriculture now and I've found out at last what makes
28the roads red. It's a great comfort. I wonder how Marilla and Mrs. Lynde are enjoying themselves. Mrs. Lynde says Canada
29is going to the dogs the way things are being run at Ottawa and that it's an awful warning to the electors. She says if
30women were allowed to vote we would soon see a blessed change. What way do you vote, Matthew?" "Conservative," said
31Matthew promptly. To vote Conservative was part of Matthew's religion. "Then I'm Conservative too," said Anne decidedly.
32"I'm glad because Gil--because some of the boys in school are Grits. I guess Mr. Phillips is a Grit too because Prissy
33Andrews's father is one, and Ruby Gillis says that when a man is courting he always has to agree with the girl's mother
34in religion and her father in politics. Is that true, Matthew?" "Well now, I dunno," said Matthew. "Did you ever go
35courting, Matthew?" "Well now, no, I dunno's I ever did," said Matthew, who had certainly never thought of such a thing
36in his whole existence. Anne reflected with her chin in her hands. "It must be rather interesting, don't you think,
37Matthew? Ruby Gillis says when she grows up she's going to have ever so many beaus on the string and have them all crazy
38about her; but I think that would be too exciting. I'd rather have just one in his right mind. But Ruby Gillis knows a
39great deal about such matters because she has so many big sisters, and Mrs. Lynde says the Gillis girls have gone off
40like hot cakes. Mr. Phillips goes up to see Prissy Andrews nearly every evening. He says it is to help her with her
41lessons but Miranda Sloane is studying for Queen's too, and I should think she needed help a lot more than Prissy
42because she's ever so much stupider, but he never goes to help her in the evenings at all. There are a great many things
43in this world that I can't understand very well, Matthew." "Well now, I dunno as I comprehend them all myself,"
44acknowledged Matthew. "Well, I suppose I must finish up my lessons. I won't allow myself to open that new book Jane lent
45me until I'm through. But it's a terrible temptation, Matthew. Even when I turn my back on it I can see it there just as
46plain. Jane said she cried herself sick over it. I love a book that makes me cry. But I think I'll carry that book into
47the sitting room and lock it in the jam closet and give you the key. And you must not give it to me, Matthew, until my
48lessons are done, not even if I implore you on my bended knees. It's all very well to say resist temptation, but it's
49ever so much easier to resist it if you can't get the key. And then shall I run down the cellar and get some russets,
50Matthew? Wouldn't you like some russets?" "Well now, I dunno but what I would," said Matthew, who never ate russets but
51knew Anne's weakness for them. Just as Anne emerged triumphantly from the cellar with her plateful of russets came the
52sound of flying footsteps on the icy board walk outside and the next moment the kitchen door was flung open and in
53rushed Diana Barry, white faced and breathless, with a shawl wrapped hastily around her head. Anne promptly let go of
54her candle and plate in her surprise, and plate, candle, and apples crashed together down the cellar ladder and were
55found at the bottom embedded in melted grease, the next day, by Marilla, who gathered them up and thanked mercy the
56house hadn't been set on fire. "Whatever is the matter, Diana?" cried Anne. "Has your mother relented at last?" "Oh,
57Anne, do come quick," implored Diana nervously. "Minnie May is awful sick--she's got croup. Young Mary Joe says--and
58Father and Mother are away to town and there's nobody to go for the doctor. Minnie May is awful bad and Young Mary Joe
59doesn't know what to do--and oh, Anne, I'm so scared!" Matthew, without a word, reached out for cap and coat, slipped
60past Diana and away into the darkness of the yard. "He's gone to harness the sorrel mare to go to Carmody for the
61doctor," said Anne, who was hurrying on hood and jacket. "I know it as well as if he'd said so. Matthew and I are such
62kindred spirits I can read his thoughts without words at all." "I don't believe he'll find the doctor at Carmody,"
63sobbed Diana. "I know that Dr. Blair went to town and I guess Dr. Spencer would go too. Young Mary Joe never saw anybody
64with croup and Mrs. Lynde is away. Oh, Anne!" "Don't cry, Di," said Anne cheerily. "I know exactly what to do for croup.
65You forget that Mrs. Hammond had twins three times. When you look after three pairs of twins you naturally get a lot of
66experience. They all had croup regularly. Just wait till I get the ipecac bottle--you mayn't have any at your house.
67Come on now." The two little girls hastened out hand in hand and hurried through Lover's Lane and across the crusted
68field beyond, for the snow was too deep to go by the shorter wood way. Anne, although sincerely sorry for Minnie May,
69was far from being insensible to the romance of the situation and to the sweetness of once more sharing that romance
70with a kindred spirit.
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