Kristy's Rainy Day Picnic

It had but two rooms, one for girls and the other for boys. Some of the school windows opened on the street, an

; study was at an end; and at last when the grinder had played all his airs and begun again, the teacher went to the door to ask him to go. In the hall she

ve as his excuse, that he had been hired b

with red hair. Finding him determined to earn his money by playing the whole hour, the teach

t,-that he never did it,-and began to cry when the teacher brought from his desk a long ruler which the boys knew too well, for when one broke th

d, and again protested that he did not do it. Then a voice from the bac

the real culprit, and he laid down the ruler, telling the sobbing boy that he might go to his seat while h

ks put aside, she gave them a serious lecture on the trouble that had been made by that mischief, and then called upon the guilty one, if s

the whole room full-ros

e one of them tell the story, when it came out that it was th

rupted Kristy eager

Bessie. She had asked the organ-grinder how much he would charge to play under the school windows an hour, and wh

ck-witted, and bidding them resume their seats, she gave them another lec

es and pencils to be brought out-for this happened be

and waited further orders. Then the teacher wrot

AR THE ORGAN

that upon her slate over and ov

ween the culprits, while the teacher took a book and began to read, keeping, however, a sharp eye on the pupils to see

and the teacher had to spur them on again, and now and then she walked down bet

heir shouts and calls came in at the window, but the silence in the room of the girls was broken only

ey were made to put away their slates and resume their l

unishment!" she added, getting up to look out of the window again. "R

rms than rain, Krist

be worse," said Kristy

say to a blizzar

lizzard?" s

ve out on the western prairie