In addition Alec, who is on the Avonlea cricket team, is getting ready for a big game which is coming up. Felicity runs into a young player from the opposite team- David Hawes- while out walking and is immediately smitten with him (which results in the diary entry about kissing). Meanwhile, Sarah and Felix meet a friendly teenaged boy named Gus Pike, fishing in the river. Gus is an orphan who had been working on a fishing trawler which recently sank off of the coast of Nova Scotia. He's on the Island to look for work. Sarah and Felix bring him to the farm and Alec, who can't help being a dad to everyone no matter how distracted he is, tells Gus that the lobster cannery in the next community is opening for the season in a few days and will be looking for workers. He invites Gus to bunk in their barn until then, and Gus gratefully accepts, insisting on doing chores to pay his way.
Last Friday night we watched the second season episode How Kissing Was Discovered. In this episode, Felicity, aged thirteen and three quarters (as she reminds her father when he says she's a child) is experiencing growing pains. She no longer wants to run around playing with the other children because they are children, and she's decided that she's not. She spends much time mooning about her room writing in her diary, trying out more adult hair styles, and discontentedly complaining that her dresses are too childish. She's getting on the other kids' nerves and Felix takes impish revenge by stealing her diary and reading embarrassing parts- her speculating about how it would feel to be kissed- aloud in front of a number of people. This ends badly for all concerned. This isn't the only uproar at King Farm; Janet's Great Aunt Eliza has arrived for a visit. Fussy, outspoken, and hard of hearing, Eliza travels about staying with all her relatives, sometimes for upwards of six months, as Janet ruefully explains to Alec. She's brought enough baggage with her for at least that long of a visit. Her constant demands for attention keep Janet, who hasn't been feeling well all week, stressed and exhausted. And her constant critical comments about his character keep Alec exasperated. In addition Alec, who is on the Avonlea cricket team, is getting ready for a big game which is coming up. Felicity runs into a young player from the opposite team- David Hawes- while out walking and is immediately smitten with him (which results in the diary entry about kissing). Meanwhile, Sarah and Felix meet a friendly teenaged boy named Gus Pike, fishing in the river. Gus is an orphan who had been working on a fishing trawler which recently sank off of the coast of Nova Scotia. He's on the Island to look for work. Sarah and Felix bring him to the farm and Alec, who can't help being a dad to everyone no matter how distracted he is, tells Gus that the lobster cannery in the next community is opening for the season in a few days and will be looking for workers. He invites Gus to bunk in their barn until then, and Gus gratefully accepts, insisting on doing chores to pay his way. At the cricket match, Felicity irks her family by cheering loudly when David Hawes gets a run... or whatever it is in cricket. And she's visibly put out when Alec hits David's pitch and wins the game. At the following reception, she attempts to attract Hawes' attention and manages to spill her punch on him. Using his handkerchief to mop up the spill, she promises to launder it for him. She hopes to return it to him at the tournament's closing dance that night. There's only one problem: the dance is for adults, not children. Felicity goes to Janet and begs her mother to allow her to accompany her and Alec to the dance. Janet, harried and tired, is inclined to give in if only to stop the nagging but puts Felicity off, saying that she will talk to her father about it. Felicity runs off to tell Sarah that she's going, assuming that her father will give his permission because he's usually pretty amenable, especially if Janet asks him for something. Finding Sarah in the barn, Felicity gets her to help her practice dancing; they're doing rather badly until Gus, who has been observing while forking hay, gets out his fiddle and skillfully plays them a tune to dance to. Unfortunately for Felicity's hopes, Alec is no mood to be lenient. Soaking his sore muscles in the tub, he's already irritated by her behaviour at the match and reception and tells Janet that the last thing he's going to do is take Felicity to a dance where she can make even more of a spectacle of herself, mooning over some fancy pants guy. He says that frankly, he doesn't even want to go to the dance. Janet, still not feeling well, says that would be fine with her but Felicity will be very disappointed. Alec replies sarcastically and Janet, who's tired and emotional, tears up and flees the room. Eliza, who has a genius for making bad situations worse, upbraids Alec, calling him a brute. At this inauspicious time Felicity arrives, inquiring brightly when they're leaving for the dance. Alec informs her that no one is going anywhere, let alone to the dance, which results in her running off to her room. There she angrily tells Sarah and Cecily that she's going to the dance no matter what anyone says. She stars ripping the frills and sleeves off one of her dresses to make it look more grown up as the other two girls look on worriedly. (To Be Continued...)
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