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Well, I have a full day at the newspaper office, so I've given you that list of

goods we need for Mrs.

Lawson's, and Jasper, please, just what's on the list.

I'm trying to make sure that we don't spend more than $2 this month, so it's

important that we just keep to our budget.

All right, then.

Jasper, you haven't heard a word I've said.

Oh, yes, uh, budget, yes, very tight.

Budget.

Mr. Harold B. Dunn, the man behind Dunsburg, Pennsylvania, the city of the

future, is in Charlottetown.

Those that close to the entrepreneur say that Mr. Dunn is looking for the site

of his next project.

Dunsville? Avonlea, it's become Dunsville.

Now,

now, Rachel Lynn, you don't know what the man's going to say.

You don't have to be a mind reader, Archie Gillis. I couldn't agree with you

more, Rachel.

There's a first.

No Yankees going to come up here and buy up all our property. Well, the next

thing you know, we'll have an invasion of Americans, that's what. Can't you at

least give the man a fair hearing first before manning the ramparts?

Are you telling me you're prepared to entertain all this?

Come

right

in, Jasper.

Raleigh's Roll Oats is presenting this display. It's a new sales venture, a

traveling motion picture show.

are so exciting.

Sorry.

Edison, protect...

How many frames? How many frames?

How many frames?

Look, I'm no Edison. I'm just here to tell stereo.

Recreating real life like it actually happens.

Oh,

moving pictures, such nonsense.

If you ask me, the world is changing too fast for its own good. One day, moving

pictures, and Lord knows what next.

People on the moon, I suppose.

No doubt about that.

Oh, what?

Jasper, on the moon, really?

Well, why not? I mean, only a few hundred years ago, people thought the

was flat.

Yes, well, I have some truly astonishing news to announce.

All right. I feel it.

Angus McCorkadale has sold the cannery.

No. I don't believe it.

Oh, it's true.

And I heard directly from the horse's mouth.

Rachel Lynn.

That the buyer is that Yankee millionaire, H .B. Dunn. Dunn, that's

that just built Dunsburg, the city of the future.

Oh, it was all over the Charlottetown paper this morning.

Scientific claptrap, that's what it is. He buys up land on which he builds

modern homes and stores, and then his company leases them back to the town's

population.

And that's supposed to be sound, is it?

Well, the king's farm could be next door.

Why not the entire community, for that matter?

Can't stop progress, Hedy.

Progress, you call it?

You and your progress, Jasper.

Why, your scientific tinkering don't bring your two dimes so rough together.

Eddie King.

Well, if you weren't so enamored with all this moving picture nonsense, you'd

notice you have a family to support.

Our family is supported just fine, Eddie.

I'll get some milk, Angelivia.

Oh, yes, well, I suppose financial difficulties are none of my affair.

But wise, Jasper. You would have taken my advice in the first place and gone

found a proper job.

That's one of the things.

Oh, yes, that was a very sound idea.

I think that I've been spending too much time in my workshop.

Jasper.

Well, let's not discuss it now, anyway.

I know, I know.

I'm going to put aside my experimental workshop for a while.

Well, I won't let you even think of working in a bank.

No, no, no. I'm going to do some serious writing.

I shall see about getting articles published, because I haven't been doing

fair share of looking after the expenses.

Jasper, that's not even true, you see. Now you're just letting Hetty's opinions

rankle you. No, no.

Mine's made up.

Less time on tinkering, more time on financial responsibilities.

Uncle

Jasper?

Hmm?

Do you really think that everyone in Avonlea will let Mr. Dunbar up the town?

Oh. Well, I don't exactly know. These company towns, they're becoming very

popular down in the States.

I'm just worried that this town will change somehow.

Progress can't be stopped.

The past is never the same.

The future.

What's all this?

Oh, sounds foolish, but this is a letter that I'm writing to the...

Thomas Edison Company in New Jersey to tell of my theories. You know, the one

about the motion picture?

And Mr. Edison is a scientist and a filmmaker, so he'll understand.

Theory?

I've been doing quite a bit of thinking lately.

You see, it depends on the number of frames and the speed at which they're

shown to convey the action. And I thought perhaps with 22 or 24 frames...

Instead of the usual 18, which the Edison projectors

project at now, that it would complete the action.

See, the additional four or six frames would smooth out the action.

That's wonderful.

Why don't you build your own new improved camera?

I can't.

I was going to try to, but...

Rather short of funds.

Truth be told, it's not been a very good year, financially.

What with Montgomery and all, and... Me

need to buckle down, like your aunt Eddie said. I need to publish

more articles.

Secretly.

I thought, what if the Edison people were to hire me to do the experiments?

Uncle Jasper, you have to do that.

You absolutely must.

It's a brilliant idea, and I'm sure they'd hire you.

Besides, I mean, publishing articles is all well and good, but you have to go on

inventing. I don't want you to change.

Well, thank you, Sarah. That makes two.

You and Olivia.

I'll mail that for you if you like.

Oh, thank you. You're very kind.

No,

thank you.

I am anxious to get going on the article for the

Royal Society of Naturalists who have promised to pay me a small sum

for my troubles.

Bye, Uncle Jasper.

Um, yeah.

Bye.

Aunt Hattie, I need to speak with you frankly right away.

Oh, be frank by all means, but kindly wipe off your boots. I've just polished

the floor.

I've come to a very important decision.

I think that with all the weight of my affairs on your shoulders, I should have

more of a say in the way my trust is being administered.

I'd like to make a very small investment in something I believe strongly about.

Well, that's good.

I've selected an investment.

Would you like some advice in that area? After all, it is a very tricky

business. You want to choose wisely.

I'd like to invest in the arts.

You don't mean silly things like plays and actors, do you? That's a sure way to

fritter away your money.

But you used to always lecture to us in the classroom about how Queen Elizabeth

supported Shakespeare in the 16th century.

You yourself have made your fortune by being a writer.

That's true.

Aunt Hetty, this is my destiny.

To help the people that I want to because I can afford to.

Tell you what.

Let's draft a letter.

You and I.

Come on.

To your solicitors in Montreal.

They're sure to come up with a sound suggestion.

Aunt Hetty, my father left this for me to deal with ultimately.

And I honestly feel that I am old enough to...

To know how to invest a small amount of my money, wisely and on my own.

Yes, but, child, people might take advantage of your kind nature.

That's why all requests for money from the trustees must come through me

directly. But... Can't be too careful.

The only truly safe place for your fortune is in property or in the bank.

And take it from me, the Queen of England owns them both.

Now...

To your solicitors.

Quiet!

Quiet, please!

May I have your attention?

As you know, this is an open meeting to discuss the proposed intentions of the

American, Mr.

Harold Dunn.

Mr. Dunn, you may take the stand.

I understand you're all anxious to know what my plans are for the cannery.

My proposition to your lovely hamlet of Avonlea is to transform it into

Dunsville.

The city of the future.

The new and expanded cannery will operate with the working precepts

late by Mr. Henry Ford of the state of Michigan.

As with Dunsburg, Pennsylvania, we have already shown that such a city plan...

built to support an expanded cannery and other proposed automated factory plants

in the area will work and is overwhelmingly beneficial to the local

How beneficial?

Beneficial for whom exactly, Mr. Dunn? I want to know what's going to happen to

me and mine, sir.

My family depends on the cannery for three square meals on the table.

I am a family man myself, sir, and there is nothing more important to me than

the welfare of my loved ones, giving them a decent place to live, providing

them. That means clothes on their backs and food on their table.

That is a new harbor for larger vessels and a railroad to transport goods and

people. Dunsville means prosperity.

That's what my city of the future is all about.

It means affordable homes with running water and electricity, telephones and

indoor plumbing, bringing the farming communities, every community, into the

20th century.

Bert, did you hear that?

Indoor necessities.

I hear a lot of talk, Clara.

Can you imagine, Bert? Let's get indoor plumbing for our new home.

What new home?

The one we're buying when we sell the old one to Mr. Dunn. I'm not selling,

I'm not buying anything.

An outhouse is good enough for a pot.

Let's try and keep our heads, everyone.

After all, nobody gives away something for nothing.

Good point.

What's the catch, Mr. Dunn?

No catch, sir.

Certain properties will be needed to realize our goal.

May I ask just why you picked Avonlea?

Honestly, madam, the Nova Scotia properties were too expensive.

So you think our land can be acquired more cheaply, is that it?

This man will control the very life of the town.

Well, you'll be renting your property back from him, shopping in his stores,

buying everything from him.

He'll run you out of business, Elvira. You too, Archie Gillis.

Well, what... What properties are we talking about, Mr. Dunn?

Take a good look at the plans here, depicting the high standard of daily

that can be yours in the city of the future.

Now, I know that you will all need time to think about my proposal, and I am

only too happy to leave offers with you and return in a month's time for your

decision. The brochure will give you all the details of the plans.

Please, come closer.

Good Lord.

What is that contraption plunk in the middle of my yard? That's company

headquarters. Well, according to this plan, that runs right through the middle

of my home, Mr. Dunn. Well, we are not without alternatives, but you will be

adequately compensated and a new modern home can be yours at the right price.

What's those buildings there? The main storage facilities.

That's Green Gables.

You're not going along with that, Mr. Harrison.

Merle, a cutthroat, would roll over in her grave.

I'd say yes if I were you, Harrison.

It'd be a sweet deal for you.

Oh, there are people who cannot be bought, Archie Gillis. And I ain't one

them. Well, I can tell you right now that I'm ready to sell, Mr. Dunn.

Need the money.

How much?

Cash in the barrel.

You paint a rosy picture of this Dunsville.

But I'm quite sure that the reality won't bear much resemblance to the

Where are the people in it? Where are the open spaces, the orchards and

wildflowers, the rows of farmer's fields? Miss King, my ideas may not be

everyone's cup of tea, but believe me, they are for the good of the majority.

Oh, they're not for my good.

Well, all I've got so far is just a lot of hot air from Angus McCorky about the

sale of the cannery. How much does that cost you?

Sir,

I'm a woman of independent means, and I'm prepared to compensate you for your

trouble so far. That is, buy it back.

Well, if you won't accept my offer, then I'll...

Then I'll get an injunction from the crown and I'll investigate you and this

-called city of the future.

Oh, I have the funds, Mr. Dunn, believe you me.

I have the funds.

The king seems mighty eager to spend some money.

Plenty of royalties, my wager.

She'll need more than that to equal what Mr. Dunn is paying out.

I wonder how many people would sell to Hattie King if she offered more money.

Two bidders make for a better price.

You can't mean it, you layly bugle. Oh!

Here's where Rose Cottage butts up against the Campbell property, which we

know, and here is the King firm, and right here.

It's the piece of land that Mr. Dunn is after for his railroad throughway.

Is that all? Just that little square?

Janet, if you had anything substantial between your ears, you'd understand that

that little square, as you call it, is crucial.

Without that little square, Mr.

Dunn would have to change the entire direction of the railroad, which would

him a fortune.

Oh, well, then why don't we charge him a fortune and sell him our little square?

Janet, we don't want to sell our little square.

Why ever not? It's just a little tiny piece of land.

I think that's a good point. It's just a small bit of family property.

What do you think, Jasper?

Well, I think progress always entails a certain amount of controversy.

Actually, I don't think that it's my place to... No, thank the Lord it's not

your place, and I'll thank you, Jasper Dale, to keep your ideas to yourself.

Harry, I asked Jasper for his opinion.

I don't care about Jasper's opinion.

Fine, then.

Why, here's my opinion. I think we should sell.

Olivia!

Take and leave of your senses?

What harm could it possibly do? At least we'd be making some kind of a

contribution to a more progressive community.

Don't you see what you're agreeing to?

A railroad?

Running across our land?

The noise, the smell, the commotion?

I would only run once a day.

Janet, I must insist that you leave this to Hetty and Olivia and me.

Oh, you insist.

You insist.

I'm your wife, and my opinion means nothing.

I think you've both got blinkers on. You can't stand in the way of progress.

Olivia, I am deeply shocked at this betrayal.

And I can't help but feel that if your husband had done the right thing when

Montgomery was born, you'd not be so desperate now to get out of our

straits herein.

You don't know anything about our financial straits, and I'll thank you to

your opinions to yourself.

We're leaving.

Yes, I'm leaving too.

Janet, Olivia, simmer down.

No, you simmer down.

Why can't you two control your emotions?

Just stack the tea things there, will you, dear?

Very silent.

Suppose you have an opinion too, do you?

My opinion?

I think you're making life miserable for both Aunt Olivia and Uncle Jasper.

The way you attack him is absolutely insulting. He's her own husband.

Sarah, I... And besides... If you're constantly asking people to think for

themselves, don't be surprised if they don't always agree with you.

Felix, the White Sands Hotel is the only telephone line I can actively use to

make a private telephone call.

I couldn't use the one at the general store. Everyone would hear.

Felix, you have to help me.

Why does it have to be so private?

I thought Sarah or I won't help you.

Look, I went ahead and I ordered a motion picture camera for Uncle Jasper

the Thomas Edison Company in New Jersey.

Really? How'd you ever get Aunt Hedy to pay for it?

Well, I'm going to ask for the money from my trustees whether Aunt Hedy

with it or not.

I know I'm going to get in trouble.

In here, there's a private telephone for the guests.

You'll have to get the operator.

Have you got the number? Of course.

Stand watch.

Yes, I'd like the Montreal operator, please.

Yes, this is Miss Hette King.

K -I -N -G.

I'm telephoning my solicitor, Mr. Edward Bartholomew of Bartholomew of Finlay

and Howe.

Here we are, your lady.

It's Hetty King's latest effort.

Where there's a will, there's a way.

It's all about a miserable old woman and her rich niece.

Wonder where she got that idea.

Let me see it. I just loved her last novel. We sold out all our copies.

The Curse of the Spinster's Fortune.

Really, Elvira.

I'll get that telephone.

Oh, no, you, Lily, it's not for us. One ring means someone's using it over at

the White Sands.

Speaking of fortunes...

What did you make of Hetty King's trying to vie with Mr. Dunn's offer?

Really? Hetty? What did she say?

She said she'd buy him out. That's what.

Oh, Jasmine, it's all a lot of bluster.

Hetty King, even with all her royalties, doesn't own that kind of money.

No, but her niece does.

Sarah Stanley.

She's got bushel baskets full of it.

Oh, um, would you let me borrow that book after you're done with it, Rachel?

Think of it.

Let me have another look at a pivotal section here right near the end

where the old woman steals the fortune of the young girl.

Oh, no, Eulalie. Hang up. It's the White Sands again.

You speak to Mr.

Bartholomew. I have an urgent business matter that requires... Immediate

attention.

The funds will be wired right away.

Good.

Right you are.

Good Lord.

Hang up, you lady.

It's a sin to listen in on someone else's call.

You won't believe what I just heard.

You're pale as a ghost, you lady bugle.

It was Hattie King ordering up funds from Sarah's trust.

An urgent business matter, she said.

You know how life imitates art?

She just did it.

Are you sure it was Hetty?

I ought to know that voice, Elvira Lawson.

I'm telling you, Hetty King is going to use those funds to buy up this town and

sell it back to Mr. Dunn. No two ways about it.

Who would have thought it possible?

Judas, in our very midst.

The funds will be wired to the Thomas Edison Company, New Jersey, on behalf of

an order in the name of Jasper Dale.

Thank you kindly, my good man.

Oh, hello, Sarah.

The postmaster asked me to deliver this to you.

Seems to be from the Edison Company.

Very, very kind of you.

Kind of you.

Dale received your letter.

You proposed theories to our attention.

Free?

Motion picture camera, Jasper, that's impossible.

Absolutely. No, the letter says they received my correspondence about the

and, quote, they say, it is your scientific obligation to conduct these

experiments to improve any frailties in our original camera invention.

Unquote.

Jasper, that's wonderful.

Lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky day. Imagine an Edison omnibus portable

picture camera.

It'll take a bit of time, won't it?

I'll have to test it and change the camera. Oh, Jasper, now don't you worry

about our own problems.

This is the opportunity of a lifetime.

You've got to do it.

I'll manage financially. We'll be fine.

Yes.

Too good to be true.

All right.

Sarah, could you get Montgomery's nappies for me?

What's the matter? Have you had enough of that?

An Edison omnibus motion picture camera. An Edison omnibus motion picture

camera.

I used to love that lullaby when you were a baby, Sarah.

Your mother used to sing it to you all the time.

She did.

I can't remember.

I know I was only three when she died, but sometimes I lay awake at night and I

try to remember the sound of her voice.

If only I could just hear it in my head.

It frightens me sometimes.

There are pictures, but... I can't really remember what she looked like.

Well, there she looked just like you.

You won't think I'm silly if I tell you something?

No, tell me.

Sometimes... I just wish I could see her just one more time.

Just... Just hear the sound of her voice.

And see her face.

There's so much I always wanted to know about her.

He's working for the Thomas Edison Company.

He's perfecting an invention for them.

doing motion photography experiments.

Out of my way!

Jasper, get out of the road.

Just need a minute, just need a minute.

Well, I haven't got all day to wait for you and your infernal invention.

I'm working for the Thomas Edison Company.

Jasper working?

Not really my invention.

They've asked me to experiment on one of theirs. Well, that's all well and good,

but I've got a business to run. Now I want you and it out of the way. If we

could hear if he calls me, please.

The road is yours.

Take them, Mr. Dunne, and you can shove them down your parchment water faucet.

What do you want? There it is.

Get that contraction out of my face, Jasper Dale.

Move the arm. Move the arm more.

I'll move the arm for you in a minute, I'll tell you.

Good.

What do you think you're doing?

Motion picture, Eddie.

Motion picture?

Experiments in motion, hence the laundry for the Edison Company, New Jersey.

You mean to say that somebody has hired you to make a moving

picture? Not hired, exactly.

Conducting research.

I see. So you're making a moving picture of my...

Laundry line and for nothing.

It's the motion that I'm interested in.

Oh, Jasper, dear.

Are you duck -raving mad?

Just keep doing what you're doing. I won't be in the way.

Oh, you most certainly will not. Have you stopped?

What's the matter?

Don't just stand there. Help me.

May I have escaped your notice, Jasper?

Was it you?

Once you waste your time tinkering with that toy, some of us are trying to

preserve our homes and our farms and our very way of life.

Thank you, dear.

I will not have my foundation garments in a motion picture.

Not for Thomas Edison, nor anyone else for that matter.

So just be gone with her. Gone.

Don't let me catch you skulking around here with that thing.

Gone.

dying. I don't care if it's for the Queen of Sheba.

I'd not let her peruse my laundry either.

Don't look at me, my boy, just act naturally.

I want to see your arm moving back and forward.

Would Miss King please clear the picture?

Oh, Jeff, for goodness sakes, shut off that ridiculous contraption.

Don't!

Stop it!

Well, Ed, you're pestering the entire community.

He isn't bothering anyone, Aunt Hattie.

Well, he's bothering me.

Let go, Clara!

Clear!

Clear! How can you begrudge me one small convenience?

We are not living in a Dunsville home, so we are not needing a Dunsville

contraction.

Come on, Bert.

What's wrong with a new home?

Stay out of this, Archie.

from that infernal contraction, aren't you, Gillis? You are responsible for

this, Bert. Don't blame Bert Potts.

Blame Hattie King.

She's the one that's responsible for this whole town going berserk. I beg

pardon? She's in cahoots with that despicable Mr.

Dunn. She's stealing money from Sarah's funds to help Mr.

Dunn buy up Avonlea.

You lilly -biggle, that is a bald -faced lie.

Why ever would you dream up such errant nonsense?

All here in your latest novel. The rich niece, the forgery.

Deny that if you can, Hattie King.

Don't be ridiculous. It's a novel.

A novel. I made it up.

You didn't make up that telephone call I heard.

What telephone call?

I know what I heard.

Oh, Wager, somebody ought to get a constable. I listened in on the line,

heard you tell Sarah's solicitors that you needed to borrow money from her

trust.

Excuse me, but Hedy King is as honest as the day is long.

Oh, thank you, Jasper. Aunt Hedy, listen to me.

It's my fault.

I made that telephone call, and I pretended to be you.

I imitated your voice.

I just needed to get the money for that motion picture camera for Jasper.

I just thought he should be able to do what he wanted, and I wanted you and

Olivia to stop arguing.

Am I?

No, this isn't.

Fine kettle of fish.

You won't get away with this, heavy king.

Now, listen here, you layly bugle. That's quite enough of that.

If you must know, Sarah herself did the damage.

She just told me so, and I'm... Oh, I am shocked and appalled.

Just as she imitated my voice and wheedled funds from her solicitor so she

buy that brother -in -law of mine a camera of all things.

Working for Thomas Edison, my auntie.

Hey, a good money for one of Jasper Dale's inventions.

Uncle Jasper, I'm sorry.

I thought it would be better for everyone if you two stopped arguing over

Jasper. See now what your planks and schemes have brought you to.

Oh, and not just you, my girl.

Why, the humiliation to have had my character impugned and maligned by that

eulalie bugle of all people.

Jasper Dale running amok there with his silly hammer.

You enjoy fighting.

I think Uncle Jasper's clever. He's very clever. And he should be able to

experiment and try out all of his new wonderful ideas.

He should be able to make important discoveries.

Aunt Hattie, he deserves our support because we can afford to give it to him.

support?

That'll be the day.

Now, you listen to me, Sarah Stanley.

If you ever converse with your solicitors again, ever, without my

shall...

Well, I'm not sure what I'll do, but it'll be dramatic.

Well, I'll tell you what I'll do.

If you don't stop picking on Jasper, I'll leave you and I'll go back to

and I'll live with Danny Louisa.

You have a kind heart, child. I know

that.

It's just the machinations of your brains I worry about.

I'm sorry. I know I'm too wound up about this. It's just I'm afraid.

Afraid for all of us.

Oh, Evan, they can't change it, mustn't they?

I won't let it.

May I come in?

Well, I'm not stopping you, Emma.

Did Jasper return the cameras I told him to?

Oh, Eddie, Jasper is so despondent.

He spent so much time and energy and he is so close to a breakthrough on

improving that camera.

Won't you let him keep it just to finish his work?

Perhaps I don't understand.

I take it you refuse to help save our land from Mr. Dunn, and yet you want me

now to help out Jasper. Why on earth would I say yes to that request?

Eddie, I didn't mean to go against family wishes. I was only being contrary

oppose you.

I was trying to defend Jasper.

Oh, Eddie, you just don't understand.

Jasper... is devastated.

And you know he really believes all those awful things you have said about

Aunt Hetty, you can't force him to take back that camera.

It's my money and I want him to keep it.

If you don't apologize immediately, I'm packing my bags for Montreal.

And Mr. Edison wasn't really interested in my theory.

What a fool I was for thinking that he might be.

And after this, everyone is now convinced that your father is a

crackpot.

Maybe I am.

Maybe I am.

But I wanted to do this for you ever so much, my son.

And as I was making these pictures all through the town, I knew that I could

make a real motion picture.

Before it's all lost.

A real recording. Something to remember us by.

The way we looked.

The way we laughed.

The way the whole town lived.

I want very badly to give that to you.

Something that you could show your son.

One day.

Something that your children would treasure.

Sometime when we're dead.

I've let you down, miss.

Eddie.

Olivia's not here.

Yes, well, I... I'm not here to see Olivia. I'm here to speak

with you, Jasper. I know what you're going to say.

I've already packed it up straight there under your nose.

Jasper Dale, I... I realise we are not all cut out of the same cloth.

No, you are who you are and will do what you do, and that's that.

But maybe you and your newfangled

motion picture, maybe just the thing to save my Avonlea from the

dreaded Dunsville.

You lost me.

We're going to finish your darn moving pictures.

And we'll show them to you at the next town meeting.

Say a change is inevitable.

Well, then, let's change their mind.

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for returning this evening in such large

numbers. I am pleased to know that so many of you wish to see the world as I

heading into a bright future.

Make no mistake.

What I offer you will raise the standard of living of every man, woman, and

child.

My associates here will circulate amongst the crowd to collect the signed

by all vendors.

Oh, most eloquent, Mr. Dunn, but first, perhaps you'll let us state our

case.

But of course.

It would be a pleasure. The floor is yours, Miss King.

What

is

this? Oh, just an experiment.

This is Avonlea.

This is the Avonlea I know, with all its many inhabitants, of whom I'm history

proud to say I'm one.

We are farmers, true.

One and all, we come from noble, hearty stock, Scottish, English, and Irish.

We are proud and God -fearing.

Too, I believe that good fortune has shone on us, making this island our very

happy home.

And you may be sure that life here isn't all work and no play.

likes its drama.

And we do it, too, with plenty of zip and enthusiasm.

I like to think of us as one large family, and like true family members,

we don't always get along.

We do care a great deal for one another, and one day when we grow old and

bid adieu to this fair earth wonder, hope there'll be others to take our

and feel as passionately about Avonlea as we do.

Why, someday the images you see may be all that's left of the town we love so

dearly.

than I was supposed to be.

Little left to tell of our simple existence.

But then perhaps this moving picture will speak to those who come after of

we P .E. Islanders grew up, lived, married, and died here at the beginning

of the 20th century.

Which is why we have chosen this way to record for all time our response

to... Mr. Dunn's offer to buy up our town.

So, when you look around you at the haunted hill,

at the homestead lights, at the fields tilled by the dead and gone who love

you will say...

Why, I've come home.

Life.

We're lucky enough to live each moment of every day and... Jasper Dale has been

fortuitous and ingenious enough to capture that we and future

generations... We know it.

Thank you, Miss King. If that is the end of your presentation, then my

associates will now pick up the signed offers.

Cash on the barrelhead.