‘But we vowed not to skip.’
‘But why read what cannot instruct or elevate us. Let us begin this next stanza, and hope for something better. The first line is—I wonder if it really can be as it is written.’
‘Do please read it!’
‘Setebos and Setebos and Setebos.’
The three students looked sadly at each other. ‘This is worse than anything I could have imagined,’ said the reader.
‘We mast skip that line.’
‘But we are skipping everything.’
‘It’s a person’s name,’ said Mrs. Beecher.
‘Or three persons.’
‘No, only one, I think.’