ANNE OF GANGRENE GABLES

Anne the redheaded orphan is the one orphan no one wants. Mainly because she has red hair... but also because she has diabetes and it has turned into one nasty case of gangrene... on her face. One stern yet lovable yet gutsy older lady named Martha decides to take a chance. Anne shows up at the house, and immediately Martha is taken aback, not because she has gangrene, but because she's a girl. Martha thought she was adopting a gangrenous boy orphan!!! HO ho ho, all is well though. Martha keeps her and Anne starts going to school, where the children mercilessly taunt her, calling here "Gangranne, Gangranne, the girl whose face looks like a fan...nee!" One boy named Gilbert is especially mean. He is sitting behind her in class one day, and decides to pull her pigtails -- harmless, right? Wrong. Her scalp has also become infected with gangrene. When Gilbert pulls off her pigtail, her whole scalp comes off, and then there's nothing holding up the face half of her head-skin, so that falls off too and there she sits -- skull-faced. Gilbert is a peculiarly gifted child in the comic arts, so he then dons her scalp and does his best impression of her, "Lookit me!!!!! I'm Gangrannnnnne!!!!!!" Even the teacher laughed.