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noRAINBOW VALLEYa Methodist in the face again. Just think what ascandal it will make !"A scandal itassuredly did make, growing morescandalous as itspread, until the over-harbour peopleheard that the manse children had not only cleanedhouse and put out a washing on Sunday, but hadwound up with an afternoon picnic in the graveyardwhile the Methodist Sunday School was going on. Theonly household which remained in blissful ignoranceof the terrible thing was the manse itself; on whatFaith and Una fondly believed to be Tuesday it rainedagain ; for the next three days it rained ; nobody camenear the manse; the manse folk went nowhere; theymight have waded through the misty Rainbow Valleybut all the save Susanup to Ingleside, Blythe family,and the doctor, were away on a visit to Avonlea."This is the last of our bread," said Faith, "and theditto is done.If Aunt Martha doesn't get better soonwhat will we do?""We can buy some bread in the village and there'sthe codfish Mary dried," said Una. "But we don'tknow how to cook it.""Oh, that's easy," laughed Faith."You just boil it."Boil itthey did; but as it did not occur to them tosoak it beforehand it was too salt to eat. That nightthey were very hungry ;troubles were Over.but by the following day theirSunshine returned to the world;Carl was well and Aunt Martha's misery lefther assuddenly as it had come; the butcher called at tfae