Show n TEACHERS TEACHER'S TEACHERS TEACHER'S I PROBLEM u Chrls B Dr B Matthews win restores E only way to do anything Is ta 1 to i go 0 ahead and do It It my daddy used to say lay And my m daddy Is 11 I wonderful guy 11 Miss Mill Evans Hes He's H the best bet daddy in the world and 1 I know That's the reason reason Im I'm writing this letter to you your of 01 my daddy Im I'm writing to you because 1 I dont don't don want to hurt him And 1 J know you can help me If U you want to You will will wont won't won you Miss Mill Evans Evana Youve You've given me a good scolding many a time but I remember the thelast thelast last one mostly because it was waa w only yesterday just lust before belore arithmetic class dais I bad had forgotten to do my tic Ue lesson I was glancing through b the problems problem and saw aw that if It I 1 started on them now I wouldn't get et three problems problem solved before class elan cIa would begin So I 1 slipped a note not to toMary Mary Mry Jane behind me asking kin her r If shed she'd let me take tate ber her copy Miry Mary Jane is II the smartest smarted girl to ha the class claar cia and were we're pretty good friends blends so 10 she ab let me ID take tate it tt I started darted copying her ber work and believe me Miss Mil Evans I J really felt guilty doing dOln It It I felt like Uk a traitor I 1 was wa sure ure I 1 could have bave done the h problems myself U It I had bad the time because arithmetic Is I one on of my tas ea teat lest subjects But I copied the he assignment Il ment any any- anyway way and aDd when I 1 started to slip Up the papers back to Mary Marr Jane that's s when you looked up Your eyes eyel met mine first thing then moved to the papers papera in my IDY hand haneS I didn't know what to do with my my- myself myself self then I 1 was wa so 10 scared cared Shamed too I l suppose I 1 didn't know er to drop the papers paper pap on m Mary Jans an delk desk or whether to put them back on lID mine I guess rue you know how I 1 felt felty y o ot ot t t b Well Well I hurried harried and I 1 caught the tea btu despite lie the Ole deep mew ow Well you know know bOw what what I did dId be be- caw cause you told me to do It it Pickle Dickie you Jou said please bring brin thol those papers paper here her to me m I hesi beli- belita ta a second econe I 1 felt everybody's eyes on me and and ans I 1 must must've murve ve gotten otten awful red red because that's that how bow my mt fast Fact fu felt I got gat ot up slowly and walked up and handed banded the papers papera to you You looked at the first lint page pae and you rou said laid So SO youre youre you're copying Mary Mali Marylane's lanes Unas J s 's arithmetic assignment ment Is 11 that the kind of work you OU make a habit of 01 doing doin Dickie Oh Ole h no sir Ir I 1 said ald I know I should have bave said paid No maam ma'am but butr butI It then rv Ive I've r I t didn't think Of never copIed anybody's work before I Isaid laid said And that's that the truth All AB right But you must learn never to copy someone cites else's elle work Dickie Im I'm sorry orry but you are go- go goIng go lug Ing to stay tay in school chool tonight and do your arithmetic lesson VOU knew what that hat meant aswell as II you I well wen as al I did It meant that I would miss mil my mJ bus bus and and we live Uve I three miles from m school chooL That's a aI alon along lon long walk when its it's winter and snowing snow snow- snowIng Ing l Inow-l I was Wal hardly through with my sec sec sec- second ond problem when you said Dick let ie I 1 looked up Dickie you said and nd you were wert smiling a little get your work together and take it home I with you Youre You're leaving My heart started to pound in my chest chesl You mean It IU I 1 asked I I 1 mean it you said and you I were still smiling You better hur hur- hurI I ry 17 If you want to catch the bus bur I never told daddy about that that ei ther her I almost told him him a couple of times time while he was waa helping me on my model plane after supper upper but I 1 didn't Finally he said ald Its It your time bed-time son You want to get lIet up fresh tr and nd ready for school dont don't you And I said sure dad dad- daddy daddy dy and went to my room I 1 guess I was waa half hall asleep when I 1 heard voices downstairs It got ot me wide awake I 1 crawled quietly out of bed and put my ear close to the floor to listen Usten And Arid that was when I beard heard you saying laying to daddy Im sure ure that Dickie and I 1 can cn get let along swell together Dick I 1 have a feeling that hat he likes me and andI I like him I 1 like Uke him very much Matter of fact probably as much muchal muchas as al I love his father tather You laughed then and daddy said I I thought hought Id I'd better not ten tell him about bout us UI tight light away but I suppose now it'll It'D be all ail right Im I'm sure ure you'll you'D be a wonderful mother to him Ann and nd he a good rood son to you Hes He's a good oad boy But who should know better than han you Youre You're his teacher him than I Youre You're with more mort am m You see ee Please dont don't tell my daddy will wID you Miss Evans |