News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1892-04-21

transferred from the calico, to tn,
egg-shell.
Il wonder which one of the children
did not bring me auegg?" the teach
er asked herself. As for safe keeping
she laid them, one by one. in hel
lunch-basket, filing it so completely
that the covers would not close.
At this moment, compressed gig.
gle. suddenly broke the perfect quiet
OF the schoOl-room, and looking up.
she caught Fritz S,.himpf "a self-con.
tanned little mischief, in the act of tit
ting dolls stocking on the end oil
his nose.
Fritz" said the teacher severely,
" bring that to me-"
" Vat?" asked Fritz innocently,
having whisked the stocking from his
nose, and stored it in his pocket.
" Fritz" said the teacher, don't
keep me waiting"
" No man," replied Fritz, leaving
his seat, as if suddenly rheumatic,
and slowly slouching toward the
teachers desk.
" Now the stocking, please" said
Miss Mira, as Fritz at last reached
her desk, 81 have a place for it, in
this drawer"
" Vat stocking?" stolidly asked
Fritz, blinking his black eyes, as i
the afternoon light, were all at once
too strong for them.
" Fritz" said the teacher, "YoI
may stand in the corner, by tn
blackboard, until l have more tim
to give to you"
Yes man," replied Fritz, tallin
the. Fsls,so indicated.
Teacher" cried little girl, holC
ing her pink calico sleeve far aloft
and wriggling her hand violently.
What is it Mina?" questione,
the teacher.
"Dat ist his sister dolls sstocking
vat he has, she knitted it hersel
onst," answered Nina.
THAT will do, Nina" said Miss
Mira, 1--WE will now speak our pieces
yours is first, Frederika."
The pieces all spoken, and the clock
wanting but five minutes of the time
for dismissal, the teacher made lit
tie impromptu Easter-speech to her
pupils, ana then closed it by asking
them, if they were willing, she should
carefully pack and send these Easter
eggs, they had given her, to a dear
little niece of hers in New England,
who knew nothing of colored Easter
eggs, and would be delighted with
them.
"Are you quite willing to have me
do this with them?" she questioned
again.
Eyes nam J" replied the children, in
a chorus,-all but one, and that one,
was Fritz; Fritz who had been stand
ing in the corner like a post, un-
noticed and apparently forgotten,
for a long half-hour, by this teacher
of his.
"Don't make dem to go way" he
cried, "keep them for yourself, onst. "
At this remark from Fritz, all OF
the scholars hands shot into the air,
and wriggled emphatically.
"Well, children, what is it?" asked
the teacher, inwardly amused.
IVY, vat has he to say, ven he has
not you save one?" they cried.
"Och! your no goot," called
Fritz, from the corner, his eyes flash
ing and his cheeks reddening, as they
made this charge.
"School is out" announced Miss
Mira, land all are dismissed but
Fritz Schimpf."
"Ah, ha, see onst, vat you'll git
Fritz Schimpf' said the boys, as they
left the room, and hurried down the
steps, at break-neck speed.
"Velll amt they awful NIGEL" ex-
claimed the girls, lowering about the
teachers desk, and lifting the lid OF
her basket, to peer at the eggs, vich
you links, de pootiest, teacher?" but
this Mira had scarcely time to de
clare, she liked them all, when Fritz
dismissed himself from the corner
pushed his way among the girls and
rubbing his elbow, along the edge o.
the desk, tilted the basket of eggs on
to the floor, with a dull smash.
"Och! now see datl" cried the
children drawing back, from the desk
in CONSERVATION, he ist de paddest
poy, as ever vast!
ooh! Fritz, what have you donep J
exclaimed the teacher, my beautiful
eggs are all spoiled, not n SOUND
one among them, to send my little
niecel
"Maybe l tidn't do it, l guess il
want to do it, itself, guess" sale
Fritz solemnly.
g He It'd do it, | seen him, teacher
/ seen him. said the girls in fiutte
he It'd it nit his arm, vat he says
list not right" and they stopped to
gather the pink and green; yellow anC
red fragments of Miss Mira's hump
ty-dumpty.
cit makes me feel sorry, all ofer,
said Frederika, 81 feel for more to 81
teacher"
"Mine list all, else l voult gif he
anoter nice ret one,' said Nina.
Come now, we mustgo" observe,
an older girl, and soon the school
room was emptied of all, excepting
Fritz and his teacher.
What Miss Mira found to say t,
Fritz, in the next few minutes, is onl.
known to her and to him, but he too
his way home, slowly and thought
fully, a smaller boy in his own est
nation, than he had ever been before
1t was nine O'Clock, that evening
when light tap was heard upon tn
door of Miss Mira's room, and an
swering it, she felt small packag