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1IT was October again when Anne was ready to go back to school--a glorious October, all red and gold, with mellow
2mornings when the valleys were filled with delicate mists as if the spirit of autumn had poured them in for the sun to
3drain--amethyst, pearl, silver, rose, and smoke-blue. The dews were so heavy that the fields glistened like cloth of
4silver and there were such heaps of rustling leaves in the hollows of many-stemmed woods to run crisply through. The
5Birch Path was a canopy of yellow and the ferns were sear and brown all along it. There was a tang in the very air that
6inspired the hearts of small maidens tripping, unlike snails, swiftly and willingly to school; and it was jolly to be
7back again at the little brown desk beside Diana, with Ruby Gillis nodding across the aisle and Carrie Sloane sending up
8notes and Julia Bell passing a "chew" of gum down from the back seat. Anne drew a long breath of happiness as she
9sharpened her pencil and arranged her picture cards in her desk. Life was certainly very interesting. In the new teacher
10she found another true and helpful friend. Miss Stacy was a bright, sympathetic young woman with the happy gift of
11winning and holding the affections of her pupils and bringing out the best that was in them mentally and morally. Anne
12expanded like a flower under this wholesome influence and carried home to the admiring Matthew and the critical Marilla
13glowing accounts of schoolwork and aims. "I love Miss Stacy with my whole heart, Marilla. She is so ladylike and she has
14such a sweet voice. When she pronounces my name I feel instinctively that she's spelling it with an E. We had
15recitations this afternoon. I just wish you could have been there to hear me recite 'Mary, Queen of Scots.' I just put
16my whole soul into it. Ruby Gillis told me coming home that the way I said the line, 'Now for my father's arm,' she
17said, 'my woman's heart farewell,' just made her blood run cold." "Well now, you might recite it for me some of these
18days, out in the barn," suggested Matthew. "Of course I will," said Anne meditatively, "but I won't be able to do it so
19well, I know. It won't be so exciting as it is when you have a whole schoolful before you hanging breathlessly on your
20words. I know I won't be able to make your blood run cold." "Mrs. Lynde says it made her blood run cold to see the boys
21climbing to the very tops of those big trees on Bell's hill after crows' nests last Friday," said Marilla. "I wonder at
22Miss Stacy for encouraging it." "But we wanted a crow's nest for nature study," explained Anne. "That was on our field
23afternoon. Field afternoons are splendid, Marilla. And Miss Stacy explains everything so beautifully. We have to write
24compositions on our field afternoons and I write the best ones." "It's very vain of you to say so then. You'd better let
25your teacher say it." "But she did say it, Marilla. And indeed I'm not vain about it. How can I be, when I'm such a
26dunce at geometry? Although I'm really beginning to see through it a little, too. Miss Stacy makes it so clear. Still,
27I'll never be good at it and I assure you it is a humbling reflection. But I love writing compositions. Mostly Miss
28Stacy lets us choose our own subjects; but next week we are to write a composition on some remarkable person. It's hard
29to choose among so many remarkable people who have lived. Mustn't it be splendid to be remarkable and have compositions
30written about you after you're dead? Oh, I would dearly love to be remarkable. I think when I grow up I'll be a trained
31nurse and go with the Red Crosses to the field of battle as a messenger of mercy. That is, if I don't go out as a
32foreign missionary. That would be very romantic, but one would have to be very good to be a missionary, and that would
33be a stumbling block. We have physical culture exercises every day, too. They make you graceful and promote digestion."
34"Promote fiddlesticks!" said Marilla, who honestly thought it was all nonsense. But all the field afternoons and
35recitation Fridays and physical culture contortions paled before a project which Miss Stacy brought forward in November.
36This was that the scholars of Avonlea school should get up a concert and hold it in the hall on Christmas Night, for the
37laudable purpose of helping to pay for a schoolhouse flag. The pupils one and all taking graciously to this plan, the
38preparations for a program were begun at once. And of all the excited performers-elect none was so excited as Anne
39Shirley, who threw herself into the undertaking heart and soul, hampered as she was by Marilla's disapproval. Marilla
40thought it all rank foolishness. "It's just filling your heads up with nonsense and taking time that ought to be put on
41your lessons," she grumbled. "I don't approve of children's getting up concerts and racing about to practices. It makes
42them vain and forward and fond of gadding." "But think of the worthy object," pleaded Anne. "A flag will cultivate a
43spirit of patriotism, Marilla." "Fudge! There's precious little patriotism in the thoughts of any of you. All you want
44is a good time." "Well, when you can combine patriotism and fun, isn't it all right? Of course it's real nice to be
45getting up a concert. We're going to have six choruses and Diana is to sing a solo. I'm in two dialogues--'The Society
46for the Suppression of Gossip' and 'The Fairy Queen.' The boys are going to have a dialogue too. And I'm to have two
47recitations, Marilla. I just tremble when I think of it, but it's a nice thrilly kind of tremble. And we're to have a
48tableau at the last--'Faith, Hope and Charity.' Diana and Ruby and I are to be in it, all draped in white with flowing
49hair. I'm to be Hope, with my hands clasped--so--and my eyes uplifted. I'm going to practice my recitations in the
50garret. Don't be alarmed if you hear me groaning. I have to groan heartrendingly in one of them, and it's really hard to
51get up a good artistic groan, Marilla. Josie Pye is sulky because she didn't get the part she wanted in the dialogue.
52She wanted to be the fairy queen. That would have been ridiculous, for who ever heard of a fairy queen as fat as Josie?
53Fairy queens must be slender. Jane Andrews is to be the queen and I am to be one of her maids of honor. Josie says she
54thinks a red-haired fairy is just as ridiculous as a fat one, but I do not let myself mind what Josie says. I'm to have
55a wreath of white roses on my hair and Ruby Gillis is going to lend me her slippers because I haven't any of my own.
56It's necessary for fairies to have slippers, you know. You couldn't imagine a fairy wearing boots, could you? Especially
57with copper toes? We are going to decorate the hall with creeping spruce and fir mottoes with pink tissue-paper roses in
58them. And we are all to march in two by two after the audience is seated, while Emma White plays a march on the organ.
59Oh, Marilla, I know you are not so enthusiastic about it as I am, but don't you hope your little Anne will distinguish
60herself?" "All I hope is that you'll behave yourself. I'll be heartily glad when all this fuss is over and you'll be
61able to settle down. You are simply good for nothing just now with your head stuffed full of dialogues and groans and
62tableaus. As for your tongue, it's a marvel it's not clean worn out." Anne sighed and betook herself to the back yard,
63over which a young new moon was shining through the leafless poplar boughs from an apple-green western sky, and where
64Matthew was splitting wood. Anne perched herself on a block and talked the concert over with him, sure of an
65appreciative and sympathetic listener in this instance at least. "Well now, I reckon it's going to be a pretty good
66concert. And I expect you'll do your part fine," he said, smiling down into her eager, vivacious little face. Anne
67smiled back at him. Those two were the best of friends and Matthew thanked his stars many a time and oft that he had
68nothing to do with bringing her up. That was Marilla's exclusive duty; if it had been his he would have been worried
69over frequent conflicts between inclination and said duty. As it was, he was free to, "spoil Anne"--Marilla's
70phrasing--as much as he liked. But it was not such a bad arrangement after all; a little "appreciation" sometimes does
71quite as much good as all the conscientious "bringing up" in the world.
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