The score was even; they must hold yet one;
This was to tell for all the final fate.
They all longed for this great event to come;
The tenth of February was the date.
We all had vowed, no matter what it took,
We must not fail to know the spelling book.
Three weeks of time we had yet to prepare;
And the home school should furnish the program.
Our teacher, Emma Kister, said, “With care,
Pupils, we must arrange our work and plan,