And please be careful of your fingers."
Whenever Miss Davis tried to teach her class to make an "M" or a "T" or
some other letter in ink, it was strange, but more ink seemed to get on
their fingers than anywhere else! But Miss Davis said they would learn
in good time and that she had inked her fingers, too, when she was a
little girl and was learning to write.
Sunny Boy took his seat to be ready for the writing lesson, and the
first thing he saw was the lead general lying on his back. He had
fallen off his horse!
"Though I don't see how he could fall off," argued Sunny Boy to
himself. "He screws on the little screw in the saddle. I wonder if
somebody unscrewed him!"
Carleton Marsh was beginning to hand out the papers for the writing
lesson and Jessie Smiley took the box of pens from Miss Davis. It was
her turn to distribute them to the children this week.
"I'll bet Jessie did it," said Sunny Boy, but not out loud. "I'll bet
she unscrewed the general while I was at the blackboard."
Sunny Boy knew that Jessie was mischievous and he also knew that she
could not keep her little fingers off anything that might be lying on
his desk. She had mortified him very much the first week he came to
school by making his camel squeak in class, and it would be just like
her to play with the lead soldier when Sunny Boy was at the board and
Miss Davis was busy helping some pupil.
"I'll bet Jessie did it," said Sunny Boy again to himself.
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