Jimmy Boy

ing on the piazza on all fours. "A

she was drawing of a cherub in the clouds, "she's going to; and Mr. T

Nate. "He said they jumped at it

"If I knew how a dolphin looks, I'd draw one and give it to him just for fun. B

not, Edit

e?" whined Jimmy, "She's only my s

my son. No one will

. A girl's school like that will be larks. Only four hours anyway, two

" cried Jimmy. "We can leave o

s as she was cr

stle Cliff! It's the Castle Cliff children I

'd show me about my a

u do, Nate. But if you go you'll be

the other boys will think they can be naughty too;

ins; we'll show 'em how city boys beha

himself, but had always been polite to Kyzie. Still Kyzie did not altogether like the thou

d upon the veranda, holding E

and eat figs under the seat," declared Lucy, never doubti

"Why, Lucy!" little Eddo ran

going? I fin

fun. She must talk to mamma. Mamma thought the school was foolish business; but mamma always knew what ought to be done, and how to help do it. Or if mamma eve

hey thought of just now, the dear "little two," was of dressing to "look exactly alike." As Bab had learned once for all that her hair would not curl, she spent half an hour that morning braiding her

'most school-time and my

it was angry because it had not been allo

seen by Eddo; but he espied them from the window, and they h

eave me! You ought

o everywhere b

hey are as old as anybody. Oh, see that Me

Lucy. "If my hair would o

hem smiled at th

ember, Bab. I'm glad I thought of

s wh

ly." And then they began to hum a tune and keep ste

and opened the schoolhouse door. They walked in together, and Kyzie locked the door be

hristmas, when the Sunday-school had had a celebration here. At one end of the room was a raised platform with a large desk on it. On the wall over the de

zie. "It looks dreadfully, but they didn't wa

oak, and had been hacked by jack-knives. Kyzie regretted this, but supposed the boys had not been taught any better. There was

and inkstand belong here. Ahem, I begin to tremble," said she, and looked a

e. "And now, daughter, I'll wish you goo

to stay till I called them in and took their names. Papa is so dignified that it

, watch in hand. "Fi

head; and instead of the "mellow lin-lan-lone" she expected, it made a din so tremendous that it almost seemed as if the roof w

cked them out!" thought th

e remembered that she was now Miss Dunlee, so she threw back her shoulders and looked her straightest and tallest, and as much as

a Parlin had been only fourteen when she taught her

rls, some of them with their fingers in their mouths. There were twelve in all. The l

thought Kyzie, not daring to look at him, as she waved her

ease be

it made! The children wandered about, trying one

getting settled for life,

near the west window and began

Miss Dunlee," w

e laugh," repl

did not know what to do next. "What would Miss Prince

voice shook, partly from fright, partly from trying so hard not to laugh. But she did not even smile-far from it. Nate and

e gave Jimmy a shove; Bab gazed hard at Lucy's

with her blank-book in one hand and her pen i

me?" said the boy with red hair. "And

nry Small," corrected the l

esolved that "Joe should stop calling names,

the new teacher loved her at once. Dorothy Pratt was little more than a b

her older sister Janey, "m

tangled hair and sent Ja

g, aged seven. "Janey isn't big

ut to read. Let me see, where is the best crack in the floor for them to stand on? Why didn't I bring a quarter of a d

n o'clock came. The family at home looked at her curiously, and Uncle James

as well as they knew how; bu

whether she like

ght, Uncle James, an

uldn't have made a wiser remark. We'll as

omething else, something quite out of the common; and