“You know mamma said that we were to hurry home from school,” she said.
“You weren't hurrying when you were sitting on this wall,” said Reginald.
“But I forgot, so I'm hurrying now,” Katie replied, and grasping his hand, she commenced to run very fast, laughing because he looked so unwilling.
That night there was a heavy shower that drenched the trees and left clear little puddles in the road.
Reginald reached the cottage just in time to avoid being late.
The lessons went smoothly until the readers were opened. It was a charming story, but there were many long words which puzzled the pupils.
“The water nymphs paused in the moonlight to watch the fountain spray,” was the opening sentence of the paragraph which Reginald was to read, but the letters were spaced so that the s and p were not close together in “spray.” Reginald read it as it appeared:
“‘The water nymphs paused in the moonlight to watch the fountains pray.’”
“Why, how could they?” he asked, “how could fountains pray?”
The class was amused, but Arabella laughed long and loudly, and Aunt Charlotte was obliged to speak forcibly to her to check her merriment. The small boy was angry.