When I got better it was time to go home . I do n't like visiting very much . I like going to school better , especially since I came to Avonlea . '' ` Yours respectfully , '' `` Barbara Shaw . ' '' `` Willie White 's began , '' `` Respected Miss , '' `` I want to tell you about my Very Brave Aunt . She lives in Ontario and one day she went out to the barn and saw a dog in the yard . The dog had no business there so she got a stick and whacked him hard and drove him into the barn and shut him up . Pretty soon a man came looking for an inaginary lion ' -LRB- Query ; -- Did Willie mean a menagerie lion ? -RRB- ` that had run away from a circus . And it turned out that the dog was a lion and my Very Brave Aunt had druv him into the barn with a stick . It was a wonder she was not et up but she was very brave . Emerson Gillis says if she thought it was a dog she was n't any braver than if it really was a dog . But Emerson is jealous because he has n't got a Brave Aunt himself , nothing but uncles . ' '' ' I have kept the best for the last . You laugh at me because I think Paul is a genius but I am sure his letter will convince you that he is a very uncommon child . Paul lives away down near the shore with his grandmother and he has no playmates ... no real playmates . You remember our School Management professor told us that we must not have ` favorites ' among our pupils , but I ca n't help loving Paul Irving the best of all mine . I do n't think it does any harm , though , for everybody loves Paul , even Mrs. Lynde , who says she could never have believed she 'd get so fond of a Yankee . The other boys in school like him too . There is nothing weak or girlish about him in spite of his dreams and fancies .
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