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Silver Zero Subs
Kikoeru kashira
Do you hear? Hooves beating
Original story by Lucy Maud Montgomery
AKAGE NO ANNE
Hizume no oto
A carriage goes through the gentle hills
Yuruyakana oka wo nutte
Kaketekuru basha
Someone comes to pick me up
Mukae ni kuru no mukae ni kuru no ne
And takes me
Dare ka ga
Watashi wo tsureteyuku no ne
Shiroi hana no michi he
To the avenue with white flowers
To the home of wind
Kaze no furusato he
He takes me
Tsureteyuku no ne
I'm sure
Tsureteyuku no ne
Matthew and the Puffed sleeves
Two weeks before Christmas,
Anne and her friends were fervently practicing for the concert.
OH! Your face is full of splendor.
You brighten the earth like rays of sunlight.
And your gentle heart is loved and respected by everyone.
Fairy Queen, today is your birthday.
Your servants will...
hold a grand banquet to celebrate this day.
No, no!
What's wrong, Anne?
What?
Did I do something strange?
It's your steps. Why do walk like that?
Oh, this?
But I have no choice,
because I borrowed this shoes from Ruby.
But they're two sizes too big.
Look. If I walk normally they make noise.
You look like the Fairy Grandmother.
Try to see if you can fly.
This is no laughing matter, Tillie.
The success of the play can be ruined because of me.
Anne, if you can't walk with those shoes, why don't you let Diana do your role?
You're not so good either,
so don't criticize me.
Anne.
I have an idea.
Is that a ribbon tape?
That's right.
If you tie this on your foot and shoes it'll become a pair of good looking dancing shoes.
Oh, Diana, that's a great idea!
That won't be enough,
you should also put a handkerchief inside the shoes.
I will do that too!
I'll use both methods.
But it's unhygienic to put a handkerchief inside the shoes.
We can't care about that right now.
To make the play a success, I'll would even drink the most awful soup!
Look. It's almost 5.
Oh, you're right!
I promised my mom that I would be back by 5, I have to go now.
That's right.
Anne, we're going home.
Well? Look, we'll succeed this time.
Your servants will hold a grand banquet to celebrate this day.
Well? Now everything is all right.
Those ribbon tapes are great.
But it'll be weird that only one of us uses ribbon tapes.
Matthew, who was watched them shyly suddenly
It'll be all right.
became conscious that there was something about Anne different from her mates.
Anne had a brighter face, and bigger, starrier eyes,
and more delicate features than the others.
But the difference that disturbed him did not consist in any of these respects.
Then, good bye, Anne.
I'll see you all off.
Really?
Matthew, are you home?
What are you doing there?
No, nothing... I was just resting here...
And why do you still have one boot on?
Boot?
Well... this...
Well now, but it really is nothing.
Sophia finally asked why she has to take on the role of a boy.
So I said to her:
We have an important motive. To gain money for a school flag.
We must all work together and do our best.
And today, Ruby lent me her slippers, but they are too big.
At dinner time
Ruby's feet are much bigger...
Matthew took to pondering over what made Anne different from the others,
but he didn't found the answer.
He could not refer it to Marilla.
He had recourse to his pipe that evening to help him study it out, much to Marilla's disgust.
That's the practice of a painful groan.
Even the wolves would get scared to listen such sounds.
I see, so that's it.
Did you just say something?
No... I didn't say anything.
The more Matthew thought about the matter
the more he was convinced that Anne never had been dressed like the other girls.
The sleeves...
If Matthew knew there was such a thing as fashion in dress it was as much as he did,
but ever since Anne had come to Green Gables,
she wore plain, dark dresses, all made after the same unvarying pattern.
All the other girls wear clothes with fresh colors and puffed sleeves.
Matthew, you're very strange today.
W-Well now...
What's wrong? You're mumbling to yourself.
N-Nothing. Everything's fine.
I was just thinking about something.
I'm going to bed.
But why does Marilla alway keep her so plainly and soberly gowned?
Of course, it must be all right.
Marilla knows best and Marilla is bringing her up.
But surely one dress will do no harm.
The very next evening Matthew betook himself to Carmody without telling Marilla.
He went to buy a dress for Anne like the ones Diana and the other girls wear.
That would be a great Christmas present.
Just thinking about that made Matthew rejoice.
He always had gone to William Blair's store, but today he didn't.
William Blair's two daughters frequently waited on customers there.
Today the matter required explanation and consultation,
and Matthew held them in absolute dread.
In Samuel Lawson's store
Samuel himself or his son would wait on him.
So Matthew decided to go to Samuel Lawson's store.
Oh! Please, excuse me.
Good evening, Mr. Cuthbert... Am I right?
What can I do for you?
Alas! Matthew did not know that Samuel, in the recent expansion of his business
had set up a lady clerk named Miss Harris.
Well... What would you like?
Have you any... any... any... well now...
...any garden rakes?
Garden rakes? In this season?
No... Well...
I believe we have one or two left over.
But they're upstairs in the lumber room. I'll go and see.
Mr. Cuthbert, here you go.
This was the last one.
Because it's already Winter.
R-Right.
Anything else today?
Well now, since you suggest it, I might as well take...
No... That is... look at...
No... Buy...
Well... I want to buy...
Well... Some hayseed.
Hayseed?
Please, stop joking, Mr. Cuthbert!
J-Joking?
You clearly have to be!
You know that we only keep hayseed in the spring,
don't you?
Oh, certainly, certainly
just as you say.
Mr. Cuthbert, the money for the rake?
And your hat.
My apologies!
Well... well... the weather is too hot...
Thank you for coming. Let me count your change.
Anything else?
Well now... if it isn't too much trouble I might as well... that is...
I'd like to look at... at...
Could I see that?
I understand.
Sugar isn't it?
R-Right...
It's the only kind we have. How much can I get you?
Well...
I'll take twenty pounds of it.
Why did he felt so pressed to buy a rake and sugar?
Matthew had driven halfway home before he was his own man again.
But it served him right, he thought, for going to a strange store.
But now the mistake was already done.
Did Matthew go somewhere?
Where did you go?
Well... I-I... just went to Carmody.
What is this?
Well... I went shop a little.
What did you buy?
Well... Just some brown sugar.
Brown sugar!?
And you call this, just some?
You know I never use it except for the hired man's porridge or black fruit cake.
Jerry's gone and I've made my cake long ago.
My, it's not good sugar, either.
Take a look. It's coarse and dark.
William Blair doesn't usually keep sugar like that.
I thought it might come in handy sometime.
Whatever were you thinking, Matthew?
Matthew's plan to secretly buy a dress with puffed sleeves for Anne,
somehow wasn't discovered by Marilla.
When Matthew came to think the matter over
he decided that a woman was required to cope with the situation.
There was only Mrs. Lynde,
for of no other woman in Avonlea would Matthew have dared to ask advice.
And that good lady promptly took the matter out of the harassed man's hands.
To be sure I will. I'll Pick out a dress for you to give.
I'm going to Carmody tomorrow and I'll attend to it.
Have you something particular in mind?
It doesn't matter if you don't.
I'll just go by my own judgment then.
Is that all right?
W-Well now...
I believe a nice rich brown would just suit Anne.
Right. And William Blair has some new gloria in that's real pretty.
Perhaps you'd like me to make it up for her, too.
Seeing that if Marilla was to make it Anne would probably get wind of it
before the time and spoil the surprise?
No, it isn't a mite of trouble.
I'll make it to fit my niece, Jenny Gillis,
for they are as like as two peas as far as figure goes.
Well now, I'm much obliged.
Only... Well...
Only...?
I mean... Well...
How should I explain?
I think they make the sleeves different nowadays to what they used to be.
My... Matthew is interested in fashionable clothes?
No... Well...
Actually...
Of course.
You needn't worry a speck more about it.
I'll make it up in the very latest fashion.
And... the sleeves...
I understand. I'll make them like that.
For Anne, I'll do my best.
I'll be glad to see Anne wearing something decent for once.
I suppose Marilla's trying to cultivate
a spirit of humility in Anne by dressing her as she does,
but it's more likely to cultivate envy and discontent.
Mrs. Rachel Lynde
went to Carmody and bought the materials at William Blair's store like she promised.
She started sewing as soon has she got home, to finish it in the shortest time.
Meanwhile, Anne was busy practicing for the concert,
and didn't find out about Matthew's plan.
And every night she would torment Matthew and Marilla with her proud groans.
Marilla knew all the following fortnight that Matthew had something on his mind,
but what it was she could not guess.
Two weeks passed,
and it was the Christmas Eve that Matthew longed for.
Matthew.
I finished, Matthew!
Oh, Rachel, what brings you today?
Well, Matthew asked me to make a dress for Anne.
Matthew asked? A dress?
Well, anyway, you'd better come in first.
I won't stand on ceremony then.
It was because of this.
If you had done the dress
Anne could find out about it and the Christmas present would be ruined.
So Matthew requested me.
So this is what Matthew has been looking so mysterious over
and grinning about to himself for two weeks, is it?
I knew he was up to some foolishness.
Well, I must say I don't think Anne needed any more dresses.
But, Marilla...
I made her three good, warm, serviceable ones this fall,
and anything more is sheer extravagance.
My, my, there's enough material in those sleeves alone to make a waist.
Rachel, how much do I owe you for the material and sewing?
Matthew!
You'll just pamper Anne's vanity!
And she's as vain as a peacock now.
But Marilla, the clothes Anne wears now...
Well, I hope she'll be satisfied at last,
for I know she's been hankering after those silly sleeves ever since they came in.
Although she never said a word after the first.
The puffs have been getting bigger and more ridiculous right along.
They're as big as balloons now.
Next year anybody who wears them will have to go through a door sideways.
Marilla, you are exaggerating a bi...
Anne is back, Marilla.
You're right.
Matthew, what are you doing there?
Will you let your surprise be ruined?
W-well now...
Hurry!
I'm home, Marilla.
Welcome back.
Good afternoon, Mrs. Lynde.
Good afternoon.
Wasn't Matthew at home right now?
I'm not sure.
We've practiced the final parts in school.
It was a quiet Christmas Eve.
There wasn't much celebration going on in the Cuthbert's household.
But there was an air of warmth in the kitchen.
Anne never stopped talking about the concert to be held tomorrow.
Marilla did not interfere and listened everything.
And Matthew smiled and imagined Anne's expression when she's see his present.
When Anne went to sleep, he sat and smoke his pipe.
Please open the window a little to let the air go through.
Right.
It's snowing.
It's snowing?
Looks like it'll be a White Christmas tomorrow.
Yes.
Anne was struck speechless when she received Matthew's gift.
Next episode of Anne of Green Gables:
The Christmas Concert
Please watch!
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Owaranai hana no nami
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Hana no naka de ichinichiha owaru
Samenai yume mitai ni