As they were trudging along with Teddy and the dog on the first morning, feeling very happy and very important, Edith called aunt Ann to see how cunning they looked,—Posy in a white frock and sun-bonnet; and Pollio all in blue, with a white sailor-hat. Posy had curled some dandelion-stems, and Teddy had tied them to the dog’s ears; so Beppo was as fine as the twins.
Dr. Field met the merry party on the street.
“Good-morning, little twimlings! Going to school? Well, don’t be sturbous, my dears.”
Pollio pulled Posy along with a jerk.
“Oh! give my regards to the family when you go home, and tell your mamma I disapprove of your studying too hard.”
Pollio ran faster yet. He never could see the least fun in the doctor’s jokes.
The schoolhouse was a large brick building, half a mile away; and the teacher seemed very glad to see the twins (of course they knew she would be), and she let them sit together. They liked it extremely, till Pollio happened to observe that he was one boy in the midst of forty girls: whereupon he stalked out to Miss Chase, and said with great dignity,—
“If you’ll scuse me, I want to sit the way the other folks do.”