A day at Happy Hollow School

By Lettie Cook Van Derveer
March Brothers Publishers 208, 210, 212 Wright Ave., Lebanon, O.
Copyright, 1910, By March Brothers.
A Day at Happy Hollow School
By LETTIE COOK VAN DERVEER
Setting—Interior of schoolroom. Chairs arranged in rows for scholars; desk and chair for teacher; blackboard.
(Enter teacher. Severe-looking, wearing eye-glasses. Arranges books and papers on desk. Rings bell.)
(Enter scholars, singly and in groups, talking and laughing until teacher again taps bell. They wear varied costumes, gingham aprons, etc. On entering remove coats, caps, shawls, hats and bonnets—in season and out of season—hanging them on hooks in the wall or on backs of chairs. Hair in pig-tails or curls tied with ribbons or shoestrings in all manner of fashions.)
Each has basket, bag or tin dinner-pail.
Teacher opens roll-book and proceeds to call roll.
Teacher. “Annabel Adams.”
Annabel Adams. “Present.”