"Please, teacher, I saw a mouse in Bunny Brown's desk, and he made a face at me. I mean the mouse made a face at me—not Bunny!" Sadie made haste to explain, for she saw Bunny look at her when she made the statement about his desk and the mouse.
Sadie had left her seat beside Bunny's desk, and was now up front.
"How many other girls saw the mouse in Bunny's desk?" asked Miss Bradley.
No one answered.
"Raise your hands if you are afraid to speak," said the teacher, with a smile. She was beginning to believe that Sadie had imagined it all, or else that an edge of a book had looked like a mouse.
None of the girls raised her hands except Sadie West.
"Did any boy see the mouse?" Miss Bradley next asked.
"No, but I wish I had!" exclaimed Charlie Star. "If I'd see it I'd grab it!"
The other pupils giggled on hearing this.
"Quiet, children! Quiet!" begged the teacher again.