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The Golden Road by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
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"You must," I said inexorably. "'England expects everyone to do
his duty.' That's our motto--only we'll put Prince Edward Island
in place of England. There must be no shirking. Now, what
departments will we have? We must make it as much like a real
newspaper as we can."

"Well, we ought to have an etiquette department, then," said
Felicity. "The Family Guide has one."

"Of course we'll have one," I said, "and Dan will edit it."

"Dan!" exclaimed Felicity, who had fondly expected to be asked to
edit it herself.

"I can run an etiquette column as well as that idiot in the Family
Guide, anyhow," said Dan defiantly. "But you can't have an
etiquette department unless questions are asked. What am I to do
if nobody asks any?"

"You must make some up," said the Story Girl. "Uncle Roger says
that is what the Family Guide man does. He says it is impossible
that there can be as many hopeless fools in the world as that
column would stand for otherwise."

"We want you to edit the household department, Felicity," I said,
seeing a cloud lowering on that fair lady's brow. "Nobody can do
that as well as you. Felix will edit the jokes and the
Information Bureau, and Cecily must be fashion editor. Yes, you
must, Sis. It's easy as wink. And the Story Girl will attend to
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