`` 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 , so I do n't think I 'll take any notice of it . `` Yesterday I was trying to teach Lottie Wright to do addition . I said , ` If you had three candies in one hand and two in the other , how many would you have altogether ? ' ' A mouthful , ' said Lottie . And in the nature study class , when I asked them to give me a good reason why toads should n't be killed , Benjie Sloane gravely answered , ` Because it would rain the next day . ' `` It 's so hard not to laugh , Stella . 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 .
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