I named it Violet Vale . Diana says she never saw the beat of me for hitting on fancy names for places . It 's nice to be clever at something , is n't it ? But Diana named the Birch Path . She wanted to , so I let her ; but I 'm sure I could have found something more poetical than plain Birch Path . Anybody can think of a name like that . But the Birch Path is one of the prettiest places in the world , Marilla . '' It was . Other people besides Anne thought so when they stumbled on it . It was a little narrow , twisting path , winding down over a long hill straight through Mr. Bell 's woods , where the light came down sifted through so many emerald screens that it was as flawless as the heart of a diamond . It was fringed in all its length with slim young birches , white stemmed and lissom boughed ; ferns and starflowers and wild lilies-of-the-valley and scarlet tufts of pigeonberries grew thickly along it ; and always there was a delightful spiciness in the air and music of bird calls and the murmur and laugh of wood winds in the trees overhead . Now and then you might see a rabbit skipping across the road if you were quiet -- which , with Anne and Diana , happened about once in a blue moon . Down in the valley the path came out to the main road and then it was just up the spruce hill to the school . The Avonlea school was a whitewashed building , low in the eaves and wide in the windows , furnished inside with comfortable substantial old-fashioned desks that opened and shut , and were carved all over their lids with the initials and hieroglyphics of three generations of school children . The schoolhouse was set back from the road and behind it was a dusky fir wood and a brook where all the children put their bottles of milk in the morning to keep cool and sweet until dinner hour . Marilla had seen Anne start off to school on the first day of September with many secret misgivings . Anne was such an odd girl . How would she get on with the other children ? And how on earth would she ever manage to hold her tongue during school hours ? Things went better than Marilla feared , however .
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