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| - Walter Cuthbert Blythe is the second child and son of Anne and Gilbert Blythe, named for Anne's dead father Walter Shirley, and her adoptive "parents", Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert. He is, by far, the handsomest of the six Blythe children, with wavy, black hair and dreamy grey eyes. But, he is said to be "step out of kith and kin", because he resembles none of his living relatives.
- Walter Cuthbert Blythe was Anne Shirley and Gilbert Blythe's third child. Joyce(†) and Jem were older; Nan, Di, Shirley, and Rilla were younger. Walter was named after Anne's father, Walter Shirley, and the family who took Anne in after being orphaned--the Cuthberts. He was known as "Sissy Walter" and "Miss. Walter" because he wrote "poetry trash" --as Susan Baker termed it--and was afraid of blood. Only once did he fight--when Dan Reese called Faith Meredith "pig-girl" and "rooster-girl", declared Anne wrote "trash" and called Walter a "coward"!! Walter was enraged. The next day, he fought Dan for Faith's sake and won, making him take back all his statements. When the war broke out, he was afraid to go to war, which he confided only to Rilla, though he later did enlist. He was the only on
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| - Walter Cuthbert Blythe was Anne Shirley and Gilbert Blythe's third child. Joyce(†) and Jem were older; Nan, Di, Shirley, and Rilla were younger. Walter was named after Anne's father, Walter Shirley, and the family who took Anne in after being orphaned--the Cuthberts. He was known as "Sissy Walter" and "Miss. Walter" because he wrote "poetry trash" --as Susan Baker termed it--and was afraid of blood. Only once did he fight--when Dan Reese called Faith Meredith "pig-girl" and "rooster-girl", declared Anne wrote "trash" and called Walter a "coward"!! Walter was enraged. The next day, he fought Dan for Faith's sake and won, making him take back all his statements. When the war broke out, he was afraid to go to war, which he confided only to Rilla, though he later did enlist. He was the only one of the Blythe and Meredith children, other than Joyce, to die. When Jack Elliott told them war had broke out, Walter said to Mary Vance: Walter's "famous poem, 'The Piper' ", was later actually written by LMM. "THE PIPER" One day the piper came down the Glen.. Long and low and sweet played he The children followed from door to door, No matter how those who loved might implore So willing the song of his melody The song of a woodland rill Someday the piper will come again To pipe the sons of the maple tree You and I will follow him from door to door Many of us will come back no more What matter that if Freedom still Be the crown of each native hill?
- Walter Cuthbert Blythe is the second child and son of Anne and Gilbert Blythe, named for Anne's dead father Walter Shirley, and her adoptive "parents", Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert. He is, by far, the handsomest of the six Blythe children, with wavy, black hair and dreamy grey eyes. But, he is said to be "step out of kith and kin", because he resembles none of his living relatives. In Rainbow Valley, it indicates that he already has a love for words, and he is another of Anne's children who inherits their mother's imagination. He is the one who names Rainbow Valley in the first place, as well as the White Lady (a large tree that blossoms white flowers in spring) and the Tree Lovers (two trees whose trunks lean together and boughs are entwined). Walter takes a certain "Uncle" Paul Irving, who is a famous poet who started of as an Avonlea schoolboy, as his role model, and eventually manages to get a few of his poems published, including his "Sonnets To Rosamond" aka Faith Meredith, who he has a childhood passion for. Then, in Rilla of Ingleside, after the Great War breaks out, he writes a poem called "The Piper", about how the Piper calls young men from all over the world to fight, and they have to follow no matter what happens. He becomes truly famous, and his poem is printed everywhere, and recited many a time to the soldiers who are being seen off. Eventually, though he shirks it for a long time, using the fact of his recent case of typhoid fever as an excuse, he does enlist, himself, to go and fight. I am not a spoiler, but I copied this line from Anne of Ingleside.
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