Although I 'm really beginning to see through it a little , too . Miss Stacy makes it so clear . Still , I 'll never be good at it and I assure you it is a humbling reflection . But I love writing compositions . Mostly Miss Stacy lets us choose our own subjects ; but next week we are to write a composition on some remarkable person . It 's hard to choose among so many remarkable people who have lived . Must n't it be splendid to be remarkable and have compositions written about you after you 're dead ? Oh , I would dearly love to be remarkable . I think when I grow up I 'll be a trained nurse and go with the Red Crosses to the field of battle as a messenger of mercy . That is , if I do n't go out as a foreign missionary . That would be very romantic , but one would have to be very good to be a missionary , and that would be a stumbling block . We have physical culture exercises every day , too . They make you graceful and promote digestion . '' `` Promote fiddlesticks ! '' said Marilla , who honestly thought it was all nonsense . But all the field afternoons and recitation Fridays and physical culture contortions paled before a project which Miss Stacy brought forward in November . This was that the scholars of Avonlea school should get up a concert and hold it in the hall on Christmas Night , for the laudable purpose of helping to pay for a schoolhouse flag . The pupils one and all taking graciously to this plan , the preparations for a program were begun at once . And of all the excited performers-elect none was so excited as Anne Shirley , who threw herself into the undertaking heart and soul , hampered as she was by Marilla 's disapproval . Marilla thought it all rank foolishness .
`` It 's just filling your heads up with nonsense and taking time that ought to be put XXXXX your lessons , '' she grumbled .
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