I followed her up to the platform, while they pinned a little badge on her, and every one laughed at me.

Then they sang, "God Bless our Native Land," and the president told us that we might all go home.
It seemed to me a lovely thing for those children to meet together to talk about kindness to animals.

They all had bright and good faces, and many of them stopped to pat me as I came out.

One little girl gave me a biscuit from her school bag.
Mrs.Wood waited at the door till Mr.Maxwell came limping out on his crutches.

She introduced him to Miss Laura, and asked him if he wouldn't go and take tea with them.