"No, I won't take it."
"Yes, you will; you must. I'm awfully sorry I chewed yours."
Poor little Midget! She was always impulsively getting into mischief, but she was always sorry, and generously anxious to make amends.
So Gladys took Marjorie's penholder, and Mopsy had the nibbled one. She didn't like it a bit, for she liked to have her things in good order, but she said to Gladys:
"Perhaps it will make me remember to be good in school. Oh, s'pose I'd played mouse in school hours!"
"Keep still," said Gladys, "the bell has rung."
The morning passed pleasantly enough, for there were no lessons on the first day of school.
Books were distributed, and class records were made, and lessons given out for next day.
Marjorie was delighted with her new geography, which was a larger book than the one she had had the year before. Especially was she pleased with a large map which was called the "Water Hemisphere." On the opposite page was the "Land Hemisphere," and this was a division of the globe she had never seen before.
The Water Hemisphere pleased her best, and she at once began to play games with it.