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Gilbert, having tried to please both sides, succeeded, as is usual and e neither Jane tossed her head

"I'll whip hty It's the shortest and easiest way of convincing thelance

"I shall never whip a child," she repeated firht or necessary"

"Suppose a boy sauced you back when you told hi?" said Jane

"I'd keep him in after school and talk kindly and firood in every person if you can find it It is a teacher's duty to find and develop it That is what our School Management professor at Queen's told us, you know Do you suppose you could find any good in a child by whipping hiht than it is even to teach them the three R's, Professor Rennie says"

"But the Inspector exaive you a good report if they don't come up to his standard," protested Jane

"I'd rather have my pupils love me and look back to me in after years as a real helper than be on the roll of honor," asserted Anne decidedly

"Wouldn't you punish children at all, when they misbehaved?" asked Gilbert

"Oh, yes, I suppose I shall have to, although I know I'll hate to do it

But you can keep theive theirls bythem sit with the boys?"

said Jane slyly

Gilbert and Anne looked at each other and smiled rather foolishly Once upon a time, Anne had been made to sit with Gilbert for punishment and sad and bitter had been the consequences thereof

"Well, time will tell which is the best way," said Jane philosophically as they parted

Anne went back to Green Gables by way of Birch Path, shadowy, rustling, fern-scented, through Violet Vale and past Willowht kissed each other under the firs, and down through Lover's Lanespots she and Diana had so na the sweetness of wood and field and the starry su soberly about the new duties she was to take up on the morrow When she reached the yard at Green Gables Mrs Lynde's loud, decided tones floated out through the open kitchen

"Mrs Lynde has coht Anne with a grio in Her advice is much like pepper, I thinkexcellent in s in her doses I'll run over and have a chat with Mr Harrison instead"