Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-11

her final examinations alter this
long absence, and be sure and
describe the occasion which had
resulted in the bump, cut, swell
ing or whatever it was that re-
quired the bandage.
ing at home. The first day at school
after her long absence she was kept
busy answering questions of why was
the bandage still on and how it had
got there in the first place. Her mother
thought it best to keep it on for
while to prevent her taking cold.
At last came examination week! Oh,
how hard Isabel had worked! The first
examination was arithmetic, in which
she was not very good. The others
said the questions were easy, but to
Isabel they looked pretty hard. She
managed to get through them some
way and the next examination was
easy. There were some hard ones and
some easy ones so Isabel thought she
had got through pretty well.
When she received her report card
the last day she was promoted into
the fifth grade and had an average of
80 per cent.
ELEANOR SAftGEN L.
Age u years, Terminal. Grade s.
"Hurry and finish your breakfast.
Dotty. l want you to return some
things of grandma s which 1 borrowed.
Yes" in response to an eager ques-
ton from Dotty, you may wear your
new red dress"
1t was still early when mamma tied
on Dotty's newly laundried sunbonnet
and, kissing her good-by, bade her be
home by sunset.
The morning air was delightful, and
Dotty skipped along swinging her bas-
ket by one hand. She soon reached
her destination and, opening the door
of her grandmother's cottage, went in.
You imagine her grandmother's sur
prise at having a guest so early in the
morning! The little visitor was soon
made comfortable, while her hostess
set to work to make some of her fa-
nous doughnuts.
At about 4 o'clock in the afternoon
grandma said, "Dotty, dear, would you
mind starting home a little early and
doing an errand for me in the vil-
lage?"
"Why, of course I'll do it. grandma.
Shall / start now?"
She ran to get her sunbonnet and
basket. After getting careful directions
as to what she was to do Dotty hurried
off to the village. AS it was getting
late, she went through a lot where a
COW was kept. Now Dotty's dress was
a brilliant red. and when the COW saw
it she came straight toward the poor
child, and away fled Dotty with the
COW in pursuit. They came to the
fence and Dotty stood on the top of it
for a moment, then came a sensation
of falling. falling then myriads of
stars, and then darkness.
That was how Dotty got the cut on
her cheek from a stone, which COM
PEELED her to stay home from school.
She received various bruises, which
kept her in bed.
After the young invalid came back to
school she made heroic efforts to catch
up with her schoolmates in her studies.
These efforts were not unaVailing, and
Dotty came out at the end with flying
colors since she got perfect in all her
lessons except two.
AS a reward her father gave her a
pony and cart, for which she had
wished many times.
BERTHA WARDELL.
1909 Rich street; Sentous school,
eighth grade; age 13 years.
All the girls and boys were asking
her so many questions about her face
that she said: Nov, I'll tell you all
about it at recess if you won't ask
any more about it now"
At recess they all fiocked around her,
and she said
1.-TWO weeks ago last Saturday NAM
ma said | might go out to grand
mothers and stay till Sunday after
noon. I always just love to go out to
grandmother's.
LAS soon as | got there / went all
around the house TO see If there had
been any changes Then I went out to
the gum grove, and the first thing l
saw was long row of white boxes on
a bench l had never seen them there
before, so I thought l would go over
and examine them. 1 raised up the first
box a little, then / heard an awful
buzzing My face began to sting and
hurt, and | ran to grandmother as
fast as l could. When she saw me she
said: Why, my dear girl, have you
been among the bees? She picked out
twenty-four stingers from my face and
ten from my hands "Then my face