It 's splendid to have so many boys to play with . I sit with Milty Boulter and he 's fine . He 's longer than me but I 'm wider . It 's nicer to sit in the back seats but you ca n't sit there till your legs grow long enough to touch the floor . Milty drawed a picture of Anne on his slate and it was awful ugly and I told him if he made pictures of Anne like that I 'd lick him at recess . I thought first I 'd draw one of him and put horns and a tail on it , but I was afraid it would hurt his feelings , and Anne says you should never hurt anyone 's feelings . It seems it 's dreadful to have your feelings hurt . It 's better to knock a boy down than hurt his feelings if you MUST do something . Milty said he was n't scared of me but he 'd just as soon call it somebody else to ` blige me , so he rubbed out Anne 's name and printed Barbara Shaw 's under it . Milty does n't like Barbara 'cause she calls him a sweet little boy and once she patted him on his head . '' Dora said primly that she liked school ; but she was very quiet , even for her ; and when at twilight Marilla bade her go upstairs to bed she hesitated and began to cry . `` I 'm ... I 'm frightened , '' she sobbed . `` I ... I do n't want to go upstairs alone in the dark . '' `` What notion have you got into your head now ? '' demanded Marilla . `` I 'm sure you 've gone to bed alone all summer and never been frightened before . '' Dora still continued to cry , so Anne picked her up , cuddled her sympathetically , and whispered , `` Tell Anne all about it , sweetheart . What are you frightened of ? '' `` Of ... of Mirabel Cotton 's uncle , '' sobbed Dora . `` Mirabel Cotton told me all about her family today in school .
Nearly everybody XXXXX her family has died ... all her grandfathers and grandmothers and ever so many uncles and aunts .
Of about at for if in into than that to