If there be one, try to find it;
If there be none, never mind it.
A SCHOOL WITHOUT A TEACHER
What Might Happen if Books and Bells Could Talk
The little schoolhouse was painted white, with green shutters. Over the front gable was a little old-fashioned belfry. In it swung a little old-fashioned school bell, for this was a country district school, with scarcely a house in sight.
One bright September morning, the opening day of school, forty or fifty noisy children were drawn up in line, waiting for the bell to stop ringing.
When the bell stopped, the children marched inside and took their seats facing the teacher’s desk.