Diana says she has the loveliest fair curly hair and such fascinating eyes . She dresses beautifully , and her sleeve puffs are bigger than anybody else 's in Avonlea . Every other Friday afternoon she has recitations and everybody has to say a piece or take part in a dialogue . Oh , it 's just glorious to think of it . Josie Pye says she hates it but that is just because Josie has so little imagination . Diana and Ruby Gillis and Jane Andrews are preparing a dialogue , called ' A Morning Visit , ' for next Friday . And the Friday afternoons they do n't have recitations Miss Stacy takes them all to the woods for a ` field ' day and they study ferns and flowers and birds . And they have physical culture exercises every morning and evening . Mrs. Lynde says she never heard of such goings on and it all comes of having a lady teacher . But I think it must be splendid and I believe I shall find that Miss Stacy is a kindred spirit . '' `` There 's one thing plain to be seen , Anne , '' said Marilla , `` and that is that your fall off the Barry roof has n't injured your tongue at all . '' CHAPTER XXIV . Miss Stacy and Her Pupils Get Up a Concert It was October again when Anne was ready to go back to school -- a glorious October , all red and gold , with mellow mornings when the valleys were filled with delicate mists as if the spirit of autumn had poured them in for the sun to drain -- amethyst , pearl , silver , rose , and smoke-blue . The dews were so heavy that the fields glistened like cloth of silver and there were such heaps of rustling leaves in the hollows of many-stemmed woods to run crisply through . The Birch Path was a canopy of yellow and the ferns were sear and brown all along it . There was a tang in the very air that inspired the hearts of small maidens tripping , unlike snails , swiftly and willingly to school ; and it WAS jolly to be back again at the little brown desk beside Diana , with Ruby Gillis nodding across the aisle and Carrie Sloane sending up notes and Julia Bell passing a `` chew '' of gum down from the back seat . Anne drew a long breath of happiness as she sharpened her pencil and arranged her picture cards in her desk . Life was certainly very interesting . In the new teacher she found another true and helpful friend . Miss Stacy was a bright , sympathetic young woman with the happy gift of winning and holding the affections of her pupils and bringing out the best that was in them mentally and morally .
Anne expanded like a flower under this wholesome influence and carried home XXXXX the admiring Matthew and the critical Marilla glowing accounts of schoolwork and aims .
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