With Aunt Hetty serving as the schoolmistress in Avonlea, Felix feels like the "dunce" she often calls him. Desperate to succeed in the upcoming spelling bee, he turns to Peg Bowen, the local witch, for help with a "magic stone." However, when he loses the stone, it seems his chances are gone. Meanwhile, Felicity watches her own dreams of becoming the Spelling Champion slip away as Felix unexpectedly triumphs. In the end, Felix discovers that he had the potential to win all along; he just needed to believe in himself, as Peg had intended. A memorable line from Aunt Hetty: "Cows and sows give birth as well, but to my knowledge, this doesn't qualify them for Teachers' College."
Show
Road to Avonlea
Episode
S01E11
Air Date
Oct 21, 1990
Season 1 Episodes
S01E01
The Journey Begins
S01E02
The Story Girl Earns Her Name
S01E03
The Quarantine at Alexander Abraham's
S01E04
The Materializing of Duncan McTavish
S01E05
Old Lady Lloyd (aka Song in the Night)
S01E06
Proof of the Pudding
S01E07
Conversions
S01E08
Aunt Abigail's Beau
S01E09
Malcolm and the Baby
S01E10
Felicity's Challenge
S01E11
The Witch of Avonlea
S01E12
The Blue Chest of Arabella King
S01E13
Nothing Endures But Change