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Chapter 16

270 her pencil all the time and it just mad[e] her blood —Diana’s—blood run cold.(begin subscript)^(end subscript)(begin superscript)W.X8(end superscript) Charlie Sloane’s name was written up with Em White’s on the porch wall and Em White was awful mad about it; Sam Boulter had ‘sassed’ Mr. Phillips in class and Mr. Phillips whipped him and Sam’s father came down to the school and dared Mr. Phillips to lay a hand on one of his children again and Mattie Andrews had a new red hood and a blue crossover  with tassels on it and the airs she put on about it were perfectly sickening; (begin subscript)^(end subscript)(begin superscript)X8(end superscript) and everybody missed Anne so and wished she’d come to school again and Gilbert Blythe—

 

LMM Notes

LMM Note W8
Ruby Gillis had charmed all her warts away, true's you live, with a magic pebble that Old Mary Joe from the Creek gave her. You had to rub the wart with the pebble and then throw it away over your left shoulder at the time of the new moon and the warts would all go.

LMM Note X8
and Lizzie Wright didn't speak to Mamie Wilson because Mamie Wilson's grown-up sister had cut out Lizzie Wright's grown-up sister with her beau;


TEXT ANNOTATION

"the Creek" [in W8]: The colloquial name (also spelled or pronounced "Crick"), in Montgomery's time and today, for North Rustico. The Old Mary Joe referred to is probably Acadian.

PHOTO ANNOTATION

black and white illustrations of a knit hood with long ties and a picot-edged shawl

"new red hood and blue crossover": A cross-over was a type of shawl whose ends crossed in front and tied in the back. The kind of hood she mentions is not attached to a jacket or coat. Montgomery recalled hoods worn in childhood: "Those old hoods were cosy things. Mine, I remember, were generally crocheted out of 'cardinal' wool, with cardinal satin ribbon run through the holes, a perky bow of ribbon just over the forehead, and ties of ribbon." (Complete Journals, 1922–1925, September 18, 1922, p. 54.)

Here a knitted hood from Peterson's magazine and an illustration from the front of a book of patterns for a hood.