What letter have you learned ?" "I didn't learn a letter; I learned a story.

You're a funny gell to keep a _story_-school!" Prudy held up the block.
"O, that picked thing?
You called it a ape!" "Why, Dotty Parlin! that's A." "A _what ?_" "I said _A_," repeated Prudy, with emphasis, "only just _A_." "Why, 'tisn't A _nothing_--is it ?" "Dear me," thought Prudy, "I don't see how folks do keep school.

I'm getting just as hungry--and cross!" When Dotty had learned A so well that she knew it at a glance, her teacher proceeded to the next letter, which stood on the block for a bat.

Dotty said the picture looked "like Zip with an umbrella over him." After the second story, she was tired of the business.
"Look out the window, Prudy.

See that whale! O, you April fool!" The young sister sighed over her sister's light-minded behavior.