`` I 'll get up at sunrise and go over , Marilla . '' `` What has got into your head now , Anne Shirley ? I want that pattern to cut out your new apron this evening . Go at once and be smart too . '' `` I 'll have to go around by the road , then , '' said Anne , taking up her hat reluctantly . `` Go by the road and waste half an hour ! I 'd like to catch you ! '' `` I ca n't go through the Haunted Wood , Marilla , '' cried Anne desperately . Marilla stared . `` The Haunted Wood ! Are you crazy ? What under the canopy is the Haunted Wood ? '' `` The spruce wood over the brook , '' said Anne in a whisper . `` Fiddlesticks ! There is no such thing as a haunted wood anywhere . Who has been telling you such stuff ? '' `` Nobody , '' confessed Anne . `` Diana and I just imagined the wood was haunted . All the places around here are so -- so -- COMMONPLACE . We just got this up for our own amusement .
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