No one ever loves a boaster.”
She continued to say that we should be willing to take our turn in playing a game and be good-natured whether we won or not.
Tattle-Tale Bunny stood in the corner of the play-ground talking to a new Bunny, and Miss Manners called him to her quietly and said that we should not repeat tales to any one, even after school; the only ones safe to confide in were the teacher, or one’s own mother.
When the recess games were over the Bunnies came trooping in, still noisy and out of breath. Then the teacher gave them a “Sitting Lesson.” They had to fold their paws and sit so still they could hear the Clock tick.
Miss Manners had them write, as a lesson, something to remember after school. They wrote,
“We will not linger about to play,
We will go home from school each day.”
If Pretty Bunny had followed this advice she would not have met with misfortune. As it was, she hung around the school grounds some time and then went loitering along, singing,
“When I grow up I’ll keep each rule,
And have good manners each day in school;