Notes

136                     Notes.

O19. They liked to sit there when the twilight came down and the white moths flew about in the garden and the odour of mint filled the dewy air.

P19 As ‘Josiah Allen’s Wife’ says I shall be ‘mejum’.

Q19 You’ll get along all right, now that there are no Pyes going. Josie was the last of them and a good thing she was, that’s what. There’s been some Pye or other going to Avonlea school for the last twenty years, and I guess their mission in life was to keep school teachers reminded that earth isn’t their home.

R19 whose rustle was like low friendly speech