“For my part, I’m glad she found it out,” laughed Cicely, “but if I’d suspected beforehand that she would, wild horses wouldn’t have dragged me into that laundry. It’s pretty easy not to be afraid of such a teacher; she seems just like one of us. Wasn’t she too funny with that big spoon and the red mask?”
“Are all the other teachers so quick to ‘catch on?’” asked Toinette.
“Most of them are sharp as two sticks,” replied Ethel, “but they never let on. There is only one who makes the boast that she has never been deceived by any girl, and we’ve all been just wild to play her some trick, only we’ve never yet hit upon a really good one.”
“You ought to get Toinette to do the scene from ‘Somnambula,’” said Cicely, laughing.
“What is it? What is it? What is it?” cried a half-dozen voices.
“The funniest thing you ever saw in all your born days,” said Cicely.
“Oh, tell us about it; please, do,” begged the girls.
“Let her do it for you; it will be ten times funnier than telling it.”
“When will you do it?”
“To-night, if I can manage it; it will be a good time after last night’s cut-up.”