Carrots ! '' Then Anne looked at him with a vengeance ! She did more than look . She sprang to her feet , her bright fancies fallen into cureless ruin . She flashed one indignant glance at Gilbert from eyes whose angry sparkle was swiftly quenched in equally angry tears . `` You mean , hateful boy ! '' she exclaimed passionately . `` How dare you ! '' And then -- thwack ! Anne had brought her slate down on Gilbert 's head and cracked it -- slate not head -- clear across . Avonlea school always enjoyed a scene . This was an especially enjoyable one . Everybody said `` Oh '' in horrified delight . Diana gasped . Ruby Gillis , who was inclined to be hysterical , began to cry . Tommy Sloane let his team of crickets escape him altogether while he stared open-mouthed at the tableau . Mr. Phillips stalked down the aisle and laid his hand heavily on Anne 's shoulder . `` Anne Shirley , what does this mean ? '' he said angrily . Anne returned no answer .
It was asking too much XXXXX flesh and blood to expect her to tell before the whole school that she had been called `` carrots . ''
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