Polly Pick-It-Up was very bright and she said,
“I can teach one lesson soon,
Rise when any one enters the room.”
Uncle Education said if we practise good manners every day we will not need to think about manners particularly when visitors come. We will just naturally be polite and have good manners always.
At this very minute the postman brought two letters.
One was for Uncle Education saying he was needed at once in school, and the other was from Old Mother Bun saying that Father Bun would call next day for Pretty Bunny and Healthy Bunny, for Healthy Bunny had stayed on as Aunt Etiquette had politely asked him to.
Pretty Bunny sat down and cried out,
“I can’t wear a clean dress, I haven’t another;
I never told my misfortune to mother;