`` I do n't know but that I do , myself , '' confessed Marilla , `` and it is n't fair , for Dora is n't a bit of trouble . There could n't be a better child and you 'd hardly know she was in the house . '' `` Dora is too good , '' said Anne . `` She 'd behave just as well if there was n't a soul to tell her what to do . She was born already brought up , so she does n't need us ; and I think , '' concluded Anne , hitting on a very vital truth , `` that we always love best the people who need us . Davy needs us badly . '' `` He certainly needs something , '' agreed Marilla . `` Rachel Lynde would say it was a good spanking . '' XI Facts and Fancies `` Teaching is really very interesting work , '' wrote Anne to a Queen 's Academy chum . `` Jane says she thinks it is monotonous but I do n'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 could n't manage it . ` Well , ' he said finally , ' I ca n'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 do n'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 , XXXXX I do n't think I 'll take any notice of it .
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