blame father for it after they read this they are not Christians
and so I do not mind what they say.

There is another thing I want to explain about before I stop.
Mary Vance told me that Mr. Evan Boyd is blaming the Lew Baxters
for stealing potatoes out of his field last fall. They did not
touch his potatoes. They are very poor, but they are honest. It
was us did it--Jerry and Carl and I. Una was not with us at the
time. We never thought it was stealing. We just wanted a few
potatoes to cook over a fire in Rainbow Valley one evening to eat
with our fried trout. Mr. Boyd's field was the nearest, just
between the valley and the village, so we climbed over his fence
and pulled up some stalks. The potatoes were awful small,
because Mr. Boyd did not put enough fertilizer on them and we had
to pull up a lot of stalks before we got enough, and then they
were not much bigger than marbles. Walter and Di Blythe helped
us eat them, but they did not come along until we had them cooked
and did not know where we got them, so they were not to blame at
all, only us. We didn't mean any harm, but if it was stealing we
are very sorry and we will pay Mr. Boyd for them if he will wait
until we grow up. We never have any money now because we are not
big enough to earn any, and Aunt Martha says it takes every cent
of poor father's salary, even when it is paid up regularly--and
it isn't often--to run this house. But Mr. Boyd must not blame
the Lew Baxters any more, when they were quite innocent, and give
them a bad name.
Yours respectfully,
FAITH MEREDITH."