Norwich bulletin., 1914-01-31
A COUNTRY SCHOOL
By Biddy

, red ribbon. It wuz so long she sat on it.
 Polly Wintergreen wuz all reddy to
 cum, but she wuz afrade the wind
 blue sew hard it wood blow her away. or sunpthin
 The Ministers Daughter went to a committee meetin' first SC she didn't get thare until we he'd the corfee pritty nigh all ct up.
 An Interested Reader sat there and
 took it all in, and all the time was sorry sine warn't dressed up tew. Wal, teacher (who was Rambler), alpacAer and he'd little niggerly curls on top of her forred. She jest tapped on her desk and sed: "Skule come to orderi"
 Priscilla pinched me and then thru
 me a pease of gum to chew. I pulled Maine Lovers hare and she laffed rite out in skule. It maid the | teacher mad tew Wal, we wuz orful. We disbehaved | all the time.
 slzule to recite the number tew multi | pie table in consort. Wal, Theoda jest squealed so and Samantha she jest shook, only tew or three tride to say it; then teacher sed we will have peases spoken and l see if you ken behave eny better Wal, Samantha she took her place on the platform and she makes her | bow and then she jest speaks her or i full hard pease: Mary he'd a little lamb" then she runs away to her sect.
 Of coase, we all clapt and then we all takes turns in recitin' our peases. Maine Lover goes up next and her
 pease is The Progress of Untruths. She expected to get the first prize. Then Theoda curtisies up and reads | her pease, Lochinvar's Ride. My, but she did put so much expresshun in 1t Then next comes little Betsy Bob | bitt with her readin' book, and she
 reads all about the Buttercups and Daisies.
 | Aunty No 1 then got up on the platform and with her bak part way to the skule she spoke pease on There Was Man. Then she took her sect.
 Priscilla red a pease partly threw, l then sed she he'd ruther recite one on | A Finished Educashun | Hetty Maria was asked to speak 1 her pease-her ma, arter a while got her upon a chair (she was so smalD and by usin' a little perswayshun she got her to speak her tiny little pease l and away she ran to her sect. | I was then told to speak my pease.
 Mine wuz Ten Little Nigger Boys. | Then teacher she called on Ma to | speak to the skule and in her talk | Ma sed when she cum in we was the l 1 seen; but arter heerin' us speak our peases she found we wuz very in | telligent. that she he'd enjoyed our peases very much. ! Then teacher called on An Inter | ested Reader to speak She got up and sed how pleased she wuz to hear l us speak and that the peases was new | to her.
 l Then teacher she wanted us to speak more and sum on us did; and Maine Lover and me sung ourn by turns.
 Theoda she spoke tew more peases | Then teacher she wanted us to sing ] sumpin. We did. tew! Then the prises was given.
 | An Interested Reader and Ma wuz choosed judges for they warn't Skol- lars. The ones what got the prises wuz:
 Betsy Bobbitt. Maine Lover and 1 Theoda. They got a frosted cooIy | with too anirnile crackers on it, and then teacher sed as how we he'd awl dun so well we cud awl hev a prise
 We all got cooky with one animile | on it.
 Then we he'd our picters tooken | and then Priscilla she Sed Cum out to lunch, girls" We went out and he'd a fine time eatin' of mixed up cookies saiteens, wallnuts, popcorn, candy cheese and coffee Then we he'd musick and sed good nite.