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Originally Posted by Catlady
Do they ever hire a hand after they decide to keep Anne? I don't remember. Anne herself doesn't seem to have much work to do on the farm, so I guess Matthew and Marilla didn't need as much help as they thought.
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I remember a couple of references and there may have been more.
When Matthew’s trying to talk Marilla into keeping Anne, he says that he’d told Jerry Buote that he’d hire him. And when Matthew comes home from the Carmody store with brown sugar, Marilla says that she only uses brown sugar for fruit cake and the hired man’s porridge and Jerry was gone (presumably because it’s December).