"No, no," said Mary, "that is:—
'A dillar, a dollar,
A ten o'clock scholar,
What makes you come so soon?
You used to come at ten o'clock,
And now you come at noon.'"
"That is right," said Jack. "Mary guessed it."
Then it was Mary's turn to be a page in the Mother Goose Book.
When she came in she had on Miss Smith's long white apron, her hair was done up high on her head, and she was riding on a broom.
She looked so funny that all the children laughed.
At last Edith stopped laughing and began to sing:
"Old woman, old woman,
Old woman, said I.
Oh whither, oh whither,
Oh whither so high?
To sweep the cobwebs out of the sky;
But I'll be back again by-and-by."
Yes, Edith had guessed right, so she ran out of the room.