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Anne of the Island

Chapter XVI · Chapter 16

Chapter 16 of Anne of the Island is here in full — 89 sentences across 18 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

By L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery • Curated US English Learning Edition

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A Letter from Davy “It’s beginning to snow, girls,” said Phil, coming in one November evening, “and there are the loveliest little stars and crosses all over the garden walk.

I never noticed before what exquisite things snowflakes really are.

One has time to notice things like that in the simple life.

Bless you all for permitting me to live it.

It’s really delightful to feel worried because butter has gone up five cents a pound.”

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Chapter XVI Reading 1/17

Anne of the Island

Chapter XVI · Chapter 16

Chapter 16 of Anne of the Island is here in full — 89 sentences across 18 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.

Reading 1/17 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1

A Letter from Davy “It’s beginning to snow, girls,” said Phil, coming in one November evening, “and there are the loveliest little stars and crosses all over the garden walk.

Line 2

I never noticed before what exquisite things snowflakes really are.

Line 3

One has time to notice things like that in the simple life.

Line 4

Bless you all for permitting me to live it.

Line 5

It’s really delightful to feel worried because butter has gone up five cents a pound.”

All words in this reading · 61

Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.

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A

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From this reading A Letter from Davy “It’s beginning to snow, girls,” said Phil, coming in one November evening, “and there are the loveliest little stars and crosses all over the garden walk.

all

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From this reading A Letter from Davy “It’s beginning to snow, girls,” said Phil, coming in one November evening, “and there are the loveliest little stars and crosses all over the garden walk.

and

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From this reading A Letter from Davy “It’s beginning to snow, girls,” said Phil, coming in one November evening, “and there are the loveliest little stars and crosses all over the garden walk.

are

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From this reading A Letter from Davy “It’s beginning to snow, girls,” said Phil, coming in one November evening, “and there are the loveliest little stars and crosses all over the garden walk.

because

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From this reading It’s really delightful to feel worried because butter has gone up five cents a pound.”

before

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From this reading I never noticed before what exquisite things snowflakes really are.

beginning

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From this reading A Letter from Davy “It’s beginning to snow, girls,” said Phil, coming in one November evening, “and there are the loveliest little stars and crosses all over the garden walk.

Bless

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From this reading Bless you all for permitting me to live it.

butter

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From this reading It’s really delightful to feel worried because butter has gone up five cents a pound.”

cents

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From this reading It’s really delightful to feel worried because butter has gone up five cents a pound.”

coming

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From this reading A Letter from Davy “It’s beginning to snow, girls,” said Phil, coming in one November evening, “and there are the loveliest little stars and crosses all over the garden walk.

crosses

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From this reading A Letter from Davy “It’s beginning to snow, girls,” said Phil, coming in one November evening, “and there are the loveliest little stars and crosses all over the garden walk.

Davy

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From this reading A Letter from Davy “It’s beginning to snow, girls,” said Phil, coming in one November evening, “and there are the loveliest little stars and crosses all over the garden walk.

delightful

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From this reading It’s really delightful to feel worried because butter has gone up five cents a pound.”

evening

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From this reading A Letter from Davy “It’s beginning to snow, girls,” said Phil, coming in one November evening, “and there are the loveliest little stars and crosses all over the garden walk.

exquisite

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From this reading I never noticed before what exquisite things snowflakes really are.

feel

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From this reading It’s really delightful to feel worried because butter has gone up five cents a pound.”

five

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From this reading It’s really delightful to feel worried because butter has gone up five cents a pound.”

for

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From this reading Bless you all for permitting me to live it.

from

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From this reading A Letter from Davy “It’s beginning to snow, girls,” said Phil, coming in one November evening, “and there are the loveliest little stars and crosses all over the garden walk.

garden

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From this reading A Letter from Davy “It’s beginning to snow, girls,” said Phil, coming in one November evening, “and there are the loveliest little stars and crosses all over the garden walk.

girls

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From this reading A Letter from Davy “It’s beginning to snow, girls,” said Phil, coming in one November evening, “and there are the loveliest little stars and crosses all over the garden walk.

gone

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From this reading It’s really delightful to feel worried because butter has gone up five cents a pound.”

has

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From this reading One has time to notice things like that in the simple life.

I

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From this reading I never noticed before what exquisite things snowflakes really are.

in

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From this reading A Letter from Davy “It’s beginning to snow, girls,” said Phil, coming in one November evening, “and there are the loveliest little stars and crosses all over the garden walk.

it

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From this reading Bless you all for permitting me to live it.

It's

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From this reading A Letter from Davy “It’s beginning to snow, girls,” said Phil, coming in one November evening, “and there are the loveliest little stars and crosses all over the garden walk.

Letter

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From this reading A Letter from Davy “It’s beginning to snow, girls,” said Phil, coming in one November evening, “and there are the loveliest little stars and crosses all over the garden walk.

life

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From this reading One has time to notice things like that in the simple life.

like

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From this reading One has time to notice things like that in the simple life.

little

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From this reading A Letter from Davy “It’s beginning to snow, girls,” said Phil, coming in one November evening, “and there are the loveliest little stars and crosses all over the garden walk.

live

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From this reading Bless you all for permitting me to live it.

loveliest

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From this reading A Letter from Davy “It’s beginning to snow, girls,” said Phil, coming in one November evening, “and there are the loveliest little stars and crosses all over the garden walk.

me

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From this reading Bless you all for permitting me to live it.

never

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From this reading I never noticed before what exquisite things snowflakes really are.

notice

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From this reading One has time to notice things like that in the simple life.

noticed

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From this reading I never noticed before what exquisite things snowflakes really are.

November

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From this reading A Letter from Davy “It’s beginning to snow, girls,” said Phil, coming in one November evening, “and there are the loveliest little stars and crosses all over the garden walk.

one

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From this reading A Letter from Davy “It’s beginning to snow, girls,” said Phil, coming in one November evening, “and there are the loveliest little stars and crosses all over the garden walk.

over

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From this reading A Letter from Davy “It’s beginning to snow, girls,” said Phil, coming in one November evening, “and there are the loveliest little stars and crosses all over the garden walk.

permitting

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From this reading Bless you all for permitting me to live it.

Phil

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From this reading A Letter from Davy “It’s beginning to snow, girls,” said Phil, coming in one November evening, “and there are the loveliest little stars and crosses all over the garden walk.

pound

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From this reading It’s really delightful to feel worried because butter has gone up five cents a pound.”

really

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From this reading I never noticed before what exquisite things snowflakes really are.

said

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From this reading A Letter from Davy “It’s beginning to snow, girls,” said Phil, coming in one November evening, “and there are the loveliest little stars and crosses all over the garden walk.

simple

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading One has time to notice things like that in the simple life.

snow

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From this reading A Letter from Davy “It’s beginning to snow, girls,” said Phil, coming in one November evening, “and there are the loveliest little stars and crosses all over the garden walk.

snowflakes

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading I never noticed before what exquisite things snowflakes really are.

stars

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From this reading A Letter from Davy “It’s beginning to snow, girls,” said Phil, coming in one November evening, “and there are the loveliest little stars and crosses all over the garden walk.

that

Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.

From this reading One has time to notice things like that in the simple life.

the

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From this reading A Letter from Davy “It’s beginning to snow, girls,” said Phil, coming in one November evening, “and there are the loveliest little stars and crosses all over the garden walk.

there

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From this reading A Letter from Davy “It’s beginning to snow, girls,” said Phil, coming in one November evening, “and there are the loveliest little stars and crosses all over the garden walk.

things

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From this reading I never noticed before what exquisite things snowflakes really are.

time

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From this reading One has time to notice things like that in the simple life.

to

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From this reading A Letter from Davy “It’s beginning to snow, girls,” said Phil, coming in one November evening, “and there are the loveliest little stars and crosses all over the garden walk.

up

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From this reading It’s really delightful to feel worried because butter has gone up five cents a pound.”

walk

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From this reading A Letter from Davy “It’s beginning to snow, girls,” said Phil, coming in one November evening, “and there are the loveliest little stars and crosses all over the garden walk.

what

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From this reading I never noticed before what exquisite things snowflakes really are.

worried

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From this reading It’s really delightful to feel worried because butter has gone up five cents a pound.”

you

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From this reading Bless you all for permitting me to live it.

Chapter 16 of Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery holds 89 sentences, grouped into 18 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.

What does chapter 16 of Anne of the Island contain?

Chapter 16 holds 89 sentences of Anne of the Island, unabridged, divided into 18 reading sections.

This page carries chapter 16 of Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 89 sentences, grouped into 18 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.

How do I study chapter 16 of Anne of the Island?

Work through the 18 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.

Each of the 18 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.

Can chapter 16 be read aloud to me?

Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 16 can be played aloud in United States English.

Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.

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How long does Anne of the Island take to read?

About 473 minutes of reading across 1136 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Vocabulary met early in Anne of the Island

Words and structures a reader meets early in Anne of the Island, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.

Shadow: A word that appears in the opening chapter of Anne of the Island; the reader can tap it to hear it and see its dictionary entry.
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