Carroll and Brooks readers - a reader for the fifth grade . A JAPANESE SCHOOL BOY 119 The school was a low, dark-looking building, withpaper-screened windows all around like a broad whitebelt, and with a spacious porch with dusty shelves toleave clogs on. When we arrived, we were led into aside room, where we met the master or principal, andsoon my father returned home, leaving me to his care. I felt somewhat lonesome with strangers all around,but kept myself as cool as possible, which effort wasvery much like stop-ping a leak with thehands. A slight neg-lect would bring some-thing misty into
Carroll and Brooks readers - a reader for the fifth grade . A JAPANESE SCHOOL BOY 119 The school was a low, dark-looking building, withpaper-screened windows all around like a broad whitebelt, and with a spacious porch with dusty shelves toleave clogs on. When we arrived, we were led into aside room, where we met the master or principal, andsoon my father returned home, leaving me to his care. I felt somewhat lonesome with strangers all around,but kept myself as cool as possible, which effort wasvery much like stop-ping a leak with thehands. A slight neg-lect would bring some-thing misty into myeyes. But now all the boys and girls came into onelarge room. Some forty of the older ones and fifteenof those who had newly entered took their seats, theolder ones glancing curiously at the newcomers. Butwe were all in back seats and so were not annoyed withlooks that would have felt piercing to us from behind. The desk given to me was a miserable one; notonly was it smeared with ink, ages old, but cuts weremade here and there as if it were a well-foug
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