2. Other Valentine letters should be studied in the same way.
44. Study of a Poem
Our friend Tom, who wrote the bright letter we read a few days ago, was somewhat careless about putting his things in their proper places.
"I wonder where my cap is," he shouted one morning, just as it was time to hurry to school.
"Where did you put it?" his mother asked quietly.
"On the hook in the hall," answered Tom.
"Well," said his mother with a smile, "if you are sure you put it there, Mr. Nobody must have taken it away. Perhaps he threw it on a chair in the kitchen or on the table in the hall."
And there, to be sure, on a chair or table somewhere in the house, or even on the floor, the cap was found. Mr. Nobody had put it there.