By the brook grew a silver birch-tree , a young , incredibly straight thing which Walter had named the `` White Lady . '' In this glade , too , were the `` Tree Lovers , '' as Walter called a spruce and maple which grew so closely together that their boughs were inextricably intertwined . Jem had hung an old string of sleigh-bells , given him by the Glen blacksmith , on the Tree Lovers , and every visitant breeze called out sudden fairy tinkles from it . `` How nice it is to be back ! '' said Nan . `` After all , none of the Avonlea places are quite as nice as Rainbow Valley . '' But they were very fond of the Avonlea places for all that . A visit to Green Gables was always considered a great treat . Aunt Marilla was very good to them , and so was Mrs. Rachel Lynde , who was spending the leisure of her old age in knitting cotton-warp quilts against the day when Anne 's daughters should need a `` setting-out . '' There were jolly playmates there , too -- `` Uncle '' Davy 's children and `` Aunt '' Diana 's children . They knew all the spots their mother had loved so well in her girlhood at old Green Gables -- the long Lover 's Lane , that was pink-hedged in wild-rose time , the always neat yard , with its willows and poplars , the Dryad 's Bubble , lucent and lovely as of yore , the Lake of Shining Waters , and Willowmere . The twins had their mother 's old porch-gable room , and Aunt Marilla used to come in at night , when she thought they were asleep , to gloat over them . But they all knew she loved Jem the best . Jem was at present busily occupied in frying a mess of small trout which he had just caught in the pond . His stove consisted of a circle of red stones , with a fire kindled in it , and his culinary utensils were an old tin can , hammered out flat , and a fork with only one tine left . Nevertheless , ripping good meals had before now been thus prepared . Jem was the child of the House of Dreams . All the others had been born at Ingleside . He had curly red hair , like his mother 's , and frank hazel eyes , like his father 's ; he had his mother 's fine nose and his father 's steady , humorous mouth . And he was the only one of the family who had ears nice enough to please Susan .
But he had a standing feud with XXXXX because she would not give up calling him Little Jem .
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