Little Prudy's Dotty Dimple

by Sophie May

"Then I don't want to be a monkey; I want to be a ape. I wish I could go puffing round the world in a ship."

"Well, Dotty, this isn't keeping school. What letter have you learned?"

"I didn't learn a letter; I learned a story. You're a funny gell to keep a story-school!"

Prudy held up the block.

"O, that picked thing? You called it a ape!"

"Why, Dotty Parlin! that's A."

"A what?"

"I said A," repeated Prudy, with emphasis, "only just A."

"Why, 'tisn't A nothing—is it?"

"Dear me," thought Prudy, "I don't see how folks do keep school. I'm getting just as hungry—and cross!"