In Chapter 35 of Anne of Green Gables, Josie Pye tells Anne about the Avery Scholarship:

In one moment Anne saw herself winning the Avery scholarship, taking an Arts course at Redmond College, and graduating in a gown and mortar board, before the echo of Josie’s words had died away. For the Avery scholarship was in English, and Anne felt that here her foot was on native heath.

The phrase “my foot is on my native heath” comes from Sir Walter Scott’s Rob Roy (1817). Here is an excerpt:

Rob Roy
By Sir Walter Scott

Chapter 34

`Morris,” said I, “has already paid the last ransom which mortal man can owe.”

“Eh! What?” exclaimed my companion hastily; “ what d’ye say? I trust it was in the skirmish he was killed?”

“He was slain in cold blood after the fight was over, Mr. Campbell.”

“Cold blood?—Damnation!” he said, muttering betwixt his teeth—“How fell that, sir? Speak out, sir, and do not Maister or Campbell me—my foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor!”

His passions were obviously irritated; but without noticing the rudeness of his tone, I gave him a short and distinct account of the death of Morris. He struck the butt of his gun with great vehemence against the ground, and broke out—“I vow to God, such a deed might make one forswear kin, clan, country,
wife, and bairns! And yet the villain wrought long for it. And what is the difference between warsling below the water wi’ a stane about your neck, and wavering in the wind wi’ a tether round it?—it’s but choking after a’, and he drees thedoom he ettled for me. I could have wished, though, they had rather putten a ball through him, or a dirk; for the fashion of removing him will give rise to mony idle clavers—But every wight has his weird, and we maun a’ dee when our day comes —And naebody will deny that Helen MacGregor has deep wrongs to avenge.’

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