He never talks back, and I am awful sometimes, and once I spit at him, and struck him; but I was so sorry and cried all night, and offered to give him my best doll 'cause it was the plaything I loved most, and I went without my piece of pie so he could have two pieces if he wanted,' Jerry said, her voice trembling as she made this confession, which gave Arthur a better insight into her real character than he had had before.
Hasty, impulsive, repentant, generous, and very affectionate, he felt sure she was, and he continued; 'Does Harold go to school ?' 'Yes; and I too--to the district; but I hate it!' Jerry replied.
'Why hate it ?' Arthur asked.

'What is the matter with the district school ?' 'Oh, it smells awful there sometimes when it is hot,' Jerry replied with an upward turn to her nose.

'And the boys are so mean, some of them.
Bill Peterkin goes there and I can't bear him, he plagues me so.

Wants to kiss me.

A-a-h, and says I am to be his wife, and he has got warts on his thumb!' Jerry's face was sufficiently indicative of the disgust she felt for Bill Peterkin with his warts, and leaning back in his chair, Arthur laughed heartily, as he said: 'And you do not like Bill Peterkin?
Well, what boys do you like ?' 'Harold and Dick St.Claire,' was the prompt response, and Arthur continued: 'What would you have in place of the district school ?' 'A governess,' was Jerry's answer.