COM. Where is your book?
THIRD PUPIL. I dropped it into a mud-puddle on the way to school, and the lesson come out.
COM. Next.
FOURTH PUPIL. M-o-l-a-s-s-e-s, molasses.
COM. That don’t sound jest right, but you’ve got the book on your side, so I s’pose it’s all right. Take yer place! (NUMBER FOUR is tripped by NUMBER THREE.) Neow I’d like tu see a leetle writin’. The next may take the word “squanders” and put it in a sentence on the blackboard.
(NUMBER FIVE writes in a legible schoolboy hand, “The boy squanders round a good deal.” FIFTH PUPIL reads what he has written.)
COM. Very good. The next may take “cornice” in the same way. (After a good deal of erasing he writes: “I will meat you on the cornice.” SIXTH PUPIL reads what he has written.)
COM. The next ken take “lionized,” and the next “spinster.”
SEVENTH PUPIL (writes and reads). “Daniel was lionized in the lions’ den.”
EIGHTH PUPIL (writes and reads). “Seth Crane is a spinster.”