What Katy did at school . HAT KATY DID AT SCHOOL. girls saw Hm making his way through the crowdwith an immense slice of pound-cake in eachhand. Here, Miss Rose, he said, — catch it. ButHose ran half-way downstairs, received the cake,dimpled her thanks, and retreated to the darknessabove, whence sounds proceeded which sent theamused Professor into the parlor convulsed withsuppressed laughter; Pretty soon Clover stole upthe back stairs to report. Are you having a nice time ? Is the lemon-ade good? Who have you been talking with?inquired a chorus of voices. Pretty nice. Everybody is very old. I h
What Katy did at school . HAT KATY DID AT SCHOOL. girls saw Hm making his way through the crowdwith an immense slice of pound-cake in eachhand. Here, Miss Rose, he said, — catch it. ButHose ran half-way downstairs, received the cake,dimpled her thanks, and retreated to the darknessabove, whence sounds proceeded which sent theamused Professor into the parlor convulsed withsuppressed laughter; Pretty soon Clover stole upthe back stairs to report. Are you having a nice time ? Is the lemon-ade good? Who have you been talking with?inquired a chorus of voices. Pretty nice. Everybody is very old. I haventbeen talking to anybody in particular, and thelemonade is only cream-of-tartar water. I guessits jollier up here with you, replied Clover. I must go now: my turn to play comes she ran. Except for the glory of the thing, I think werehaving more fun than she, answered Rose. Next week came St. Valentines Day. Severalof the girls received valentines from home, andthey wrote them to each other. Katy and Clover. Rose ran half-way down stairs, received the cake, dimpled her thanks, andretreated. — Page 256. WAITING FOR SPEIXG. 257 both had one from Phil, exactly alike, with thesame purple bird in the middle of the page, and I love you printed underneath ; and they joinedin fabricating a gorgeous one for Rose, which wassupposed to come from Potemkin de Montmorency,the hero of the album. But the most surprisingvalentine was received by Miss Jane. It camewith the others, while all the household were atdinner. The girls saw her redden and look angry,but she put the letter in her pocket, and saidnothing. In the afternoon, it came out through Bellathat Miss Janes letter was in poetry, and thatshe was just as mad as fire about it. Justbefore tea, Louisa came running down the Row,to No. 5, Avhere Katy was sitting with Rose. Girls, what do you think ? That letter whichMiss Jane got this morning was a valentine, themost dreadful thing, but so funny! she stoppedto laugh. How d
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