"Another use is to wake people up; I allude to boys par-tic-u-lar-ly." Another pause after the long word to enjoy the smothered laugh that went round the room.

"Some boys do not get up when called, and Mary Ann squeezes the water out of a wet sponge on their faces, and it makes them so mad they wake up." Here the laugh broke out, and Emil said, as if he had been hit, "Seems to me you are wandering from the subject." "No, I ain't; we are to write about vegetables or animals, and I'm doing both: for boys are animals, aren't they ?" cried Nan; and, undaunted by the indignant "No!" shouted at her, she calmly proceeded, "One more interesting thing is done with sponges, and this is when doctors put ether on it, and hold it to people's noses when they have teeth out.

I shall do this when I am bigger, and give ether to the sick, so they will go to sleep and not feel me cut off their legs and arms." "I know somebody who killed cats with it," called out Demi, but was promptly crushed by Dan, who upset his camp-stool and put a hat over his face.
"I will not be interruckted," said Nan, frowning upon the unseemly scrimmagers.

Order was instantly restored, and the young lady closed her remarks as follows: "My composition has three morals, my friends." Somebody groaned, but no notice was taken of the insult.

"First, is keep your faces clean second, get up early third, when the ether sponge is put over your nose, breathe hard and don't kick, and your teeth will come out easy.