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Chapter 29

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Aunt Josephine to-day and Aunt Josephine wants you and me to go to town next Tuesday and stop with her for the Exhibition.(begin strikethrough)”(end strikethrough) There”!

“Oh, Diana,” whispered Anne, (begin subscript)^(end subscript)(begin superscript)N16(end superscript) “do you really mean it? But I’m afraid Marilla won’t let me go. She will say that she can’t encourage gadding about. That was what she said last week when Jane invited me to go with them in their double-seated buggy to the American concert at the White Sands Hotel. I wanted to go but Marilla said I’d be better at home learning my lessons and so would Jane. I was bitterly disappointed, Diana.(begin strikethrough)”(end strikethrough) O16

“I’ll tell you,” said Diana, “we’ll get mother to ask Marilla. She’ll be more likely to let you go then; and

 

LMM Notes

LMM Note N16
finding it necessary to lean up against a maple tree for support,

LMM Note O16
I felt so heart-broken that I wouldn’t say my prayers when I went to bed. But I repented of that and got up in the middle of the night and said them.


PHOTO ANNOTATION

Inside a giant, high-ceilinged hall, tables display produce and goods; a booth sells ice cream and oysters.

"the Exhibition": starting in 1888, Prince Edward Island held an annual multi-day festival in October to showcase livestock, handicrafts, baking and preserves, and fine specimens of whatever fruits and vegetables grew on the Island. In 1896, entries were accepted from anywhere in the Maritimes and the Exhibition grew. The change to August brought even more interest, and the Exhibition, with its Old Home Week, is still popular.
Public Archives and Records Office of Prince Edward Island, Acc3218/173