CHAPTER XV. A Tempest in the School Teapot

"What a splendid day!" said Anne, drawing a long breath. "Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it. They may have good days, of course, but they can never have this one. And it's splendider still to have such a lovely way to go to school by, isn't it?"

"It's a lot nicer than going round by the road; that is so dusty and hot," said Diana practically, peeping into her dinner basket and mentally calculating if the three juicy, toothsome, raspberry tarts reposing there were divided among ten girls how many bites each girl would have.

The little girls of Avonlea school always pooled their lunches, and to eat three raspberry tarts all alone or even to share them only with one's best chum would have forever and ever branded as "awful mean" the girl who did it. And yet, when the tarts were divided among ten girls you just got enough to tantalize you.

The way Anne and Diana went to school WAS a pretty one. Anne thought those walks to and from school with Diana couldn't be improved upon even by imagination. Going around by the main road would have been so unromantic; but to go by Lover's Lane and Willowmere and Violet Vale and the Birch Path was romantic, if ever anything was.

Lover's Lane opened out below the orchard at Green Gables and stretched far up into the woods to the end of the Cuthbert farm. It was the way by which the cows were taken to the back pasture and the wood hauled home in winter. Anne had named it Lover's Lane before she had been a month at Green Gables.

1. how is the day going?
2. Who does she feel bad for?
3. why?
4. where are they going?
5. how do they feel about the walk?
6. How could it be worse?
7. who is carrying food?
8. what food is she carrying?
9. how many?
10. for how many to consume?
11. was this common, to bring food?
12. what was the name of the place they got educated at?
13. where is somewhere they pass on their walk?
14. and?
15. Where else?
16. Where are the livestock?
1. splendid
2. people who aren't born yet
3. for missing it
4. school
5. It's lovely
6. by going round by the road
7. Diana
8. raspberry tarts
9. three
10. ten
11. yes
12. Avonlea
13. Lover's Lane
14. Willowmere
15. Violet Vale
16. the Cuthbert farm