'Teaching is really very interesting work,' wrote Anne to a Queen’s Academy chum. 'Jane says she thinks it is monotonous but I don’t find it so. Something funny is almost sure to happen every day, and the children say such amusing things.
Jane says she punishes her pupils when they make funny speeches, which is probably why she finds teaching monotonous. This afternoon little Jimmy Andrews was trying to spell ‘speckled’ and couldn’t manage it. ‘Well,’ he said finally, ‘I can’t spell it but I know what it means. ’ '‘What?
’ I asked. '‘St. Clair Donnell’s face, miss. ’ 'St. Clair is certainly very much freckled, although I try to prevent the others from commenting on it . for I was freckled once and well do I remember it. But I don’t think St. Clair minds.
It was because Jimmy called him ‘St. Clair’ that St. Clair pounded him on the way home from school. I heard of the pounding, but not officially, so I don’t think I’ll take any notice of it. 'Yesterday I was trying to teach Lottie Wright to do addition.
I said, ‘If you had three candies in one hand and two in the other, how many would you have altogether? ’ ‘A mouthful,’ said Lottie.
And in the nature study class, when I asked them to give me a good reason why toads shouldn’t be killed, Benjie Sloane gravely answered, ‘Because it would rain the next day. ’ 'It’s so hard not to laugh, Stella.
I have to save up all my amusement until I get home, and Marilla says it makes her nervous to hear wild shrieks of mirth proceeding from the east gable without any apparent cause. She says a man in Grafton went insane once and that was how it began.
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