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elopements (begin superscript)and mysteries.(end superscript) Miss Stacy sometimes has us write a story for training in composition but she won’t let us write anything but what might happen in Avonlea in our own lives and she criticizes it very sharply and makes us criticize our own too. I never thought my compositions had so many faults until I began to look for them for myself. I felt so ashamed I wanted to give up altogether, but Miss Stacy said I could learn to write well if I only trained myself to be my own severest critic. And so I’m trying to.”

U17 hunting mainly for a dry spot on her handkerchief.

V17 and then my number is thirteen and Josie Pye says it’s so un-