ANNE OF THE ISLAND: (Chap 37) Full-fledged B.A.'s and (Chap 38) False Dawn

Hello and welcome to 1,000 One Stories from the Guild of Age. I'm your host, Jiselle Erickson. We've followed Anne Shirley through the winding paths of Avanley and the busy streets of Kingsport. And today we finally see her dawn the cap and gown.

She is officially a full-fledged BA. But, as any graduate knows, the end of a degree is often the beginning of a much more difficult test. The trunks are packed.

The keys to Patty's Place have been turned for the last time. And a certain dark-eyed suitor is waiting in the wings. With a question four years in the making. Today, we're looking at the high honors of chapter 37 in the startling clarity of chapter 38.

And thought she knew exactly what her idea looked like, but she's about to find out that sometimes the Dawn we've been waiting for is just a trick of the light. And now, our story. This is a liberal box recording.

All liberal box recordings are in the public domain. For more information and find out how you can volunteer, please visit liprvox.org. of the island by Lucy Mod Montgomery. Chapter 37, full fledged B.A.s. I wish I were dead, or that it were tomorrow night, Growned Phil. If Hugh Live long enough,

both wishes will come true, said Anne calmly. It's easy for you to be serene, you're at home in philosophy. I'm not. And when I think of that horrible paper tomorrow, I quail. If I should it, what would Jose? You won't feel. How did you get on and Greek today? I don't know, perhaps it was a good paper and perhaps it was bad enough to make home or turn over in his grave.

I've studied and molded over notebooks until I'm incapable of forming an opinion of anything. How thankful little Phil will be when all this examining is over, examining, I never heard such a word. Well, haven't I as good a right to make a word as anyone else Demanded Phil, words aren't made. They grow.

said Anne, never mind. I begin faintly to discern clear water ahead where no examination breakers loom. Girls, do you, can you realize that a redman life is almost over? I can't said Anne soarfully. It seems just yesterday that person I were alone in that crowd of freshman at Redmond. And now we are seniors in our final examinations.

Potent, wise and reverence seniors, coded fill. Do you suppose we really are any wiser than when we came to Redmond? You don't act as if you were by times. Said Aunt Jam is seen as severely. Oh Aunt Jim'sy.

Haven't we been pretty good girls? Take us by and large. These three winters you've mothered us? Pleaded fill. You've been four of the dearest. But dearest, sweetest goodest girls that ever went through college, avert Aunt J. Masina,

who never spoiled a compliment by Ms. Plasticonomy. But I mistrust, you haven't any too much sense yet. It's not to be expected, of course, experienced teachers sense. You can't learn it in a college course. You've been to college four years, and I never was, but I know heaps more than you do young ladies. There are

lots of things that never go by rule. There's a powerful pile of knowledge that you can never get at college. There are heaps of things you never learned at school." Quoted Stella. Have you learned anything at Redmond except dead languages and geometry and such trash? Quirit on Jamasina? Oh yes, I think we have on tape protested in. We've learned the truth

of what Professor Woodley told us last Philomaphic said Phil. He said humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Lafature mistakes but learned from them. Joke over your of troubles but gather strength from them, make it just of your difficulties but overcome them. Isn't that worth learning on Jimsey? Yes, it is, Dairy. When you've learned to laugh at the

things that should be laughed at and not to laugh at those that shouldn't, you've got wisdom and understanding. What have you got out of your renmin course, Anne? Mermard Priscilla, aside? I think, said Anne Sully, that I really have learned to look upon each little hindrance as the chest and each great one as the foreshadowing of victory.

Something up, I think that is what Redmond has given me. I shall have to fall back on another professor-widdly quotation to express what it has done for me, said Priscilla. You remember that he said in his address, there is so much in the world for us all if we only

have the eyes to see it and the heart to love it and the hand together it to ourselves. much in men and women, so much in art and literature, so much everywhere in which to delight and for which to be thankful. I think Redmond has taught me that in some measure. Judging from what you all say, remarked Aunt J. Masina, the summon substance is that you can learn

if you've got natural gumption enough in four years of college what it would take about 20 years of living to teach you. Well, that justifies higher education in my opinion. It's a matter I was always dubious about before. But what about people who haven't natural gumption on gymsie? People who haven't natural gumption never learn,

retorted on gymsina, neither in college nor life. If they lived to be 100, they really don't know anything more than when they were born. It's their misfortune, not their fault, poor souls. But those of us who have some gumption should doly think the Lord for it. Will you please define

Will you please define what gumption is on gymsie? Asked to fill. No, I want young woman. Anyone who has gumption knows what it is,

and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it. The busy days flew by and examinations were over. And took high honors in English,

Priscilla took honors in classics, and fill in mathematics. Stella obtained a good all-round showing. Then came convocation. This is what I would once have called an epic in my life, said Anne,

as she took Roy's violets out of their box and gazed at them thoughtfully. She meant to carry them, of course, but her eyes wandered to another box on her table. It was filled with lilies of the valley, as fresh and fragrant as those which bloomed in the green