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 . `` Did you know that Thomas a Becket was canonized as a SNAKE ? Rose Bell says he was ... also that William Tyndale WROTE the New Testament . Claude White says a ` glacier ' is a man who puts in window frames ! `` I think the most difficult thing in teaching , as well as the most interesting , is to get the children to tell you their real thoughts about things . One stormy day last week I gathered them around me at dinner hour and tried to get them to talk to me just as if I were one of themselves . I asked them to tell me the things they most wanted . Some of the answers were commonplace enough ... dolls , ponies , and skates . Others were decidedly original . Hester Boulter wanted ` to wear her Sunday dress every day and eat in the sitting room . ' Hannah Bell wanted ` to be good without having to take any trouble about it . ' Marjory White , aged ten , wanted to be a WIDOW . Questioned why , she gravely said that if you were n't married people called you an old maid , and if you were your husband bossed you ; but if you were a widow there 'd be no danger of either . The most remarkable wish was Sally Bell 's . She wanted a ` honeymoon . ' I asked her if she knew what it was and she said she thought it was an extra nice kind of bicycle because her cousin in Montreal went on a honeymoon when he was married and he had always had the very latest in bicycles ! `` Another day I asked them all to tell me the naughtiest thing they had ever done . I could n't get the older ones to do so , but the third class answered quite freely . Eliza Bell had ` set fire to her aunt 's carded rolls . '
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