Chapter 25 Chapter 24 A Unique Concert

It was golden autumn and October when Annie recovered from her foot injury and was able to go to school. The morning sun rises from the horizon, and the morning mist in the valley is instantly dyed into light purple, pearl, silver, rose and misty water colors.The dew glistened like a silver cloth covering the fields.In the hollows full of trees, dead leaves are piled up like mountains, and as soon as you walk through there, you will make a pleasant sound of "click, click". The birch trees on the "Birch Road" seem to have set up a yellow tent, and the dead fern leaves under the feet have dyed it brown.Anne happily went to school, breathing the fresh air of nature, feeling very happy.

Anne was delighted to be back at school, sharing a tea-colored desk with Diana, as she had been before. Ruby Gillies nodded to Annie across the aisle, Charlie Sloan passed a note, and Julia Bell slid a stick of rosin from the back seat. Annie finished sharpening her pencils, and while sorting out the pictures, she took a deep breath, oh!Life is really a joy. The new teacher was indeed the trusted friend Anne expected.Teacher Stich is a reasonable and cheerful woman. She understands the psychology of the children, and she can fully mobilize the children's emotions no matter in study or life, so that their talents can be brought into full play.Under the influence of the teacher, Annie also grew up happily and rapidly.

As soon as they got home, Annie flashed a pair of bright eyes, and told Marilla about her academic achievements and goals, while Marshall listened to every word with a smile on her face. critical attitude. "Marilla, I really love Mrs. Stich from the bottom of my heart. She is so gentle, she has a very nice voice, and she solemnly adds the letter 'E' when she calls me by my name. She is very respectful and her instinct makes her understand I understand this very well. Today I recited the poem, I recited "The Queen of Tragedy--Meyali of Scotland" [note] to the teacher, and I devoted myself to the recitation of this poem. After school, Ruby Gillies said that when I recited to the climax, she felt as if her blood was frozen."

"Okay, let me also recite it in the warehouse sometime," Marshall said. "Of course I can, but I can't recite it as well as I did in school," Annie said thoughtfully, "I won't be as excited as when my classmates held their breath nervously and listened to me reciting, Can I let Marshall also taste the feeling that the blood seems to be frozen?" "I heard from Mrs. Lynde that last Friday, when she saw the boys climbed to the top of Mr. Bell's tree to dig out the crow's nest, she was so frightened that her blood froze." Marilla said, " What the hell is Mrs Stich going to do with the kids doing that?"

"Observe nature and know how crows make their nests," Annie explained. "We had field lessons, which was great, Marilla, and Mr. Stich was very patient with everything and explained everything to us. It is easy to understand. On the day of the field class, we also made a composition, and my composition was the best. "That's what the teacher really said, Marilla, and I'm not proud of myself. I'm so bad at geometry, so I have nothing to be proud of. But in the last stage, I got a little better at geometry. Teacher Stich's way of speaking It's super easy to understand, but I'm definitely not at my best level, and I feel as if I can't hold my head up when I think about it.

"However, I like writing essays very much. Most of them choose topics I like to write. Next week, I will write about a famous person. There are many famous people. Who should I write about? I am a bit confused. I can't make up my mind. Don't you think it's great to be a famous person and be included in a composition after death? Well, being a famous person is already pretty good. "When I grow up, I still want to be a nurse, and go to the battlefield as a salvation angel with those who wear the Red Cross emblem to save lives. Of course, this is on the premise that I can't become a missionary to go abroad to preach. Although it is very romantic to go abroad to serve as a missionary, if you want to become a missionary, you must first become a very perfect and good person. This is my wish. The school has gymnastics classes every day, and the teacher said it is for beauty and digestion. "

"It annoys me when I hear something promotes it," said Marilla.Marilla always thought gymnastics was boring. In November, the children no longer feel so fresh and interesting about the Friday field class, reciting class, beauty, and gymnastics. Therefore, Mr. Stich submitted a proposal to the Civic Hall. The content of the proposal is in On Christmas Eve, the children organize a concert and use the proceeds as part of the purchase of the school flag. All the students agreed very much, and the children immediately began to prepare for the show. Those who were selected to perform were very excited, and Annie was the most fascinated and enthusiastic about it.In spite of Marilla's grumpy objections to her participation in any play, Anne devoted herself wholeheartedly to the planning of the play.Marilla irrefutably accused Anne of being worthless in doing so.

"Didn't someone who is obsessed like a fool delay the important study?" Marilla muttered, "Let the children organize some concerts, run around to practice and make arrangements. You do this It's just to satisfy my own vanity and add fuel to the flames, if this continues, sooner or later I will degenerate into a playful person." "But we have a very clear purpose." Anne tried to think of a way to change Marilla's opinion, "If we have a school flag, won't we be able to cultivate our patriotism, Marilla?" "It's so boring. You children don't know what patriotism is. You just want to have a good time."

"Isn't it okay to combine patriotism and entertainment? It's fun to organize a concert. There are six choruses. Diana sings and leads, and I participate in two short plays such as "The Goblin Queen." Male The children also participated in the performance of short plays. I also recited two poems. When I think about it, I tremble with excitement, but it is really exciting and makes people tremble with joy. In the end, everyone formed a "faith, hope, fraternity" ', Diana, Me, and Ruby all pose as the characters in the picture, motionless, asking to let their hair loose and wear white clothes, and I play 'Hope', with my hands crossed like this, on the chest, eyes looking up to the sky.

"I have to practice my recitation in the attic, and don't be surprised to hear a groan, there is a place in the line where there must be a groan of extreme grief, it's a groan of performance, it's very difficult, Marilla. "Because there's no George Pai part in the skit, she's very angry. She wants to play the goblin queen, but she's a stupid one. There's no fat queen like her. Never heard of it." Having said that, aren’t fairy queens all slender? "Jenny Andrews was the queen and I was a lady-in-waiting. George said that red-haired leprechauns were as unacceptable as fat leprechauns, but I paid no heed to George's words. I wore a white rosette on my hair. Corolla, Ruby Gillies lent me a pair of belt shoes, I don't have one, that's what leprechauns wear. I can't imagine there are leprechauns wearing shoes, especially shoes with copper toes. .

"We decorated the Civic Hall with a dwarf pin-fir ​​tree, and on top of the fir-tree rosettes made of pink tissue paper. The audience was seated to one person, and we went in groups of two to the sound of Emma White's organ. We entered the hall side by side, and Emma played the march. Well, Marilla, I know you're not very keen on our performance, but wouldn't you be delighted if I did well?" "I'd be more or less happy if you behaved a little more dignifiedly. I'd be glad if you'd settle down when this farce is over. You're not in the state you're in now, and I'm a little surprised to hear you talk." , why can't your tongue be worn out?" Annie sighed, and came to the backyard. The newly rising moon hung in the green sky in the west, and the moonlight spilled on the ground through the dead branches of the birch trees. In the backyard, Marshall was chopping wood, and Anne sat on a log and chatted with him about the concert.At least Marshall was Anne's most loyal listener, and he listened enthusiastically and nodded in agreement with everything Anne said. "Yes, it is indeed a very good concert. Anne will definitely perform very well." Marshall said, smiling at the confident and energetic Anne, and Anne also looked at Marshall with a smile , The two are really a pair of very close friends. Marshall was also thankful that he had nothing to do with disciplining Anne.Discipline is Marilla's duty, and the role played by Marshall is always torn between duty and emotion, and he is splinted, but on this occasion, Marshall likes to "coddle Annie" (as Marilla puts it) ), according to observation, this is a very good way, praise is more effective than discipline.