“Waal now, as nice a parcel o’ gals as ever I did see,” they heard him muttering as they trooped in to the general store bent on spending part of their hoarded allowance for striped bags full of candy.
The mail pouch was unusually bulky, and, as the girls rode back up the hill, they amused themselves by guessing which of them was to receive a letter. Suddenly, just as they reached the crest and were about to turn in between the seminary gates, Betsy Clossen gave a cry of joy, and leaped to her feet pointing. “See, there it is! Quick! Everybody wish on the first robin.”
A flash of red from a tree near, and a familiar, though startled note, confirmed Betsy’s remark. “I wish to pass A 1 in every subject on the spring exams,” Sally surprised them all by remarking.
“Oh, I say, Sal, wish for something that could happen.”
“Stick to it, Sally, you’ve improved worlds since Virg has been playing tutor.” This from Babs.
“I wish my mother may find Aunt Dorinda,” Eleanor began, when the bus stopped under the seminary portico and ten eager girls followed Micky as he carried the pouch (which might contain a letter for them) up the steps and into the school.
CHAPTER XVII
THE HEART OF MISS SNOOPINS
“Miss Snoopins is almost human sometimes, isn’t she?” Betsy exclaimed as the girls, having received their mail, trooped upstairs to their rooms. “She actually smiled when Miss King called her and gave her a letter. I do believe it’s the first she’s had this term.”
“Maybe it was only a bill, after all. I don’t think there’s anyone on this green earth who would care to write to her.”
“Oh, Betsy!” Virginia protested. “There is someone to love everybody.”