Four Little Blossoms at Oak Hill School

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was gone and great patches of mud clung to his face and hair. He was a distressed looking object indeed. While they w

ked Meg anxiously. "Maybe he ou

. "That mud is as soft as––as anything! Wasn't

other and Norah all about the help he had given them, and the twins, when they cam

don't mind it so much now, 'cause I want to be ready

ook," Bobby told Twaddles confidentially, "jus

ng indifference, "I guess the rabbit

k forward to their reports at the end of the month. These reports were immensely

lling, his father's going to give

w you will," said Meg admiringly. "Yo

I haven't missed one so far. Every a

he supper table that night, and

arder the further you go, you know. Trying for a nine is all right, but I don't

n. The poems were written by famous poets, and each poet had signed his name to his own verse. The pictures were in colors and had been painted by well-known ar

"They were raffled off 67 at a fair for a children's hospital, and

th their writing lesson while she was showing it to the younger children. Then, while the first grade was s

is morning," she announced. "We are goi

Black

y. "Tim Roon, are you chewing gum again

lped h

owed it," h

ason f

"Now ready. Robert Blossom, if I go down to Mr. Dryburg's shop 68 and

y counted on

o cents,"

n. "And if I buy three yards of braid at

w that if Miss Mason saw her she would be scolded severely. He held them beh

for braid," st

l I have?" asked Miss Mason, switching from multiplication to

h your hands, Robert? Bring them out where I can s

ten the cost of both percale and braid. 69 He managed

ng to annoy Bobby, but unfortunately he dr

sharply. "How much change shoul

ow," mutt

braid cost?" dem

gotten,"

y better with a simple test like this, I'm afraid you'll make a poor showing with your

ithmetic. But she was frightened now and plainly showed i

ed upon. By 70 this time most of the class had forgotten what the problem was,

a rather dull boy, and one who habitually made mist

sleepy eyes fixed ear

together," he announced, "so if you gave Mr. Dryburg

nd sat

his brain. Some of those who might have had eight on their cards this mont

" muttered Bob

ink he had missed a problem that Ber

ntful, you should resolve to keep your head next time. Nothing in the world but panic ma

locked rebelliously in the

ers to the board, among them Tim Roon and Charlie Black. Then she

alk into his unwilling fingers and closing them around it w

that he was ashamed of the way he had acted. Miss Mason read

2 that Meg jumped. "Are you interested in

but then she had been anxious lest Bobby get one of his "stubborn fits," as Norah

herself, carefully tracing the outline of a graceful "S."

as yellow as Meg's own, and big brown eyes. And she wore pretty dresses. Meg was so intereste