He could mimic the call of any wild bird or beast in Four Winds and he knew the haunt of every wild flower from spring to autumn . Walter Blythe was sitting under the White Lady , with a volume of poems lying beside him , but he was not reading . He was gazing now at the emerald-misted willows by the pond , and now at a flock of clouds , like little silver sheep , herded by the wind , that were drifting over Rainbow Valley , with rapture in his wide splendid eyes . Walter 's eyes were very wonderful . All the joy and sorrow and laughter and loyalty and aspiration of many generations lying under the sod looked out of their dark gray depths . Walter was a `` hop out of kin , '' as far as looks went . He did not resemble any known relative . He was quite the handsomest of the Ingleside children , with straight black hair and finely modelled features . But he had all his mother 's vivid imagination and passionate love of beauty . Frost of winter , invitation of spring , dream of summer and glamour of autumn , all meant much to Walter . In school , where Jem was a chieftain , Walter was not thought highly of . He was supposed to be `` girly '' and milk-soppish , because he never fought and seldom joined in the school sports , preferring to herd by himself in out of the way corners and read books -- especially `` po ` try books . '' Walter loved the poets and pored over their pages from the time he could first read . Their music was woven into his growing soul -- the music of the immortals . Walter cherished the ambition to be a poet himself some day . The thing could be done . A certain Uncle Paul -- so called out of courtesy -- who lived now in that mysterious realm called `` the States , '' was Walter 's model . Uncle Paul had once been a little school boy in Avonlea and now his poetry was read everywhere . But the Glen schoolboys did not know of Walter 's dreams and would not have been greatly impressed if they had . In spite of his lack of physical prowess , however , he commanded a certain unwilling respect because of his power of `` talking book talk . ''
Nobody in Glen St. Mary school could talk XXXXX him .
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