Building.

An' the idee of him tellin' me he wanted to see if my pockit-book had better leather in it than hisn!" The fact that the school children, big and little, loved Miss Banks possessed no point of influence over their elders of the feminine persuasion.

They turned up their Tinkletown noses and sniffed at her because she was a "vain creature," who thought more of "attractin' the men than she did of anything else on earth." And all this in spite of the fact that she was the intimate friend of the town goddess, Rosalie Gray.
Everybody in school No.

5 over the age of seven was deeply, jealously in love with Miss Banks.

Many a frozen snowball did its deadly work from ambush because of this impotent jealousy.
But the merriest rivalry was that which developed between Ed Higgins, the Beau Brummel of Tinkletown, and 'Rast Little, whose father owned the biggest farm in Bramble County.