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about twenty-five! Twenty-five! And I had always considered the school day as divided into seven fortyfive I
minute periods. went to the door and
dren,"
I
called the children in.
said, "I don't think there
we can do today.
You may
"Chil-
anything else go now, and go quietly is
please."
They trooped out, chattering down at my desk and wrote "Dear Mama," I wrote. what they seem."
magpies. I sat the promised card. "Things are not always like
—M. B.