“I am sorry to be late the first day of school. There was some trouble at Rockland and the train was delayed. Mr. Jones drove me over.”
“We are glad you are here,” said an older girl as the machine drove off. “We went in and took our seats at nine o’clock, thinking you would come at any minute. All at once something began to talk. ‘I am the Speller full of hard words; I am the Arithmetic; I am the Reader; I am the Geography; where is your teacher?’ the voices said. At first we thought somebody was hiding, but we could not find anyone. Then we got frightened and ran out.”
“Well, isn’t that strange?” said the teacher laughing. “We will go in and see.”
Together they trooped into the schoolroom. They looked everywhere; nothing had been moved; everything was just as usual.
The teacher tapped the bell and everyone took a seat.
“Well, children,” she said smiling, “we have already learned a very important lesson this morning, and that is that every school must have a teacher!”
QUESTIONS
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What other persons or things should a school have?