Show A Little Deaf Mute Mut SHE SHE was very stupid so stupid that at last the young teacher grew impatient and rapped her fin fingers ers sharply with his stood in inh pencil Then two great tears h her r eyes but they did not fall She Shedid Shedid Shedid did not even move her hand Perhaps after all the blow h hurt rt most in her heart When the lessons were finished she put her few books boaks neatly in the desk and left the room A boy pinched her arm but she scarcely noticed Someone had dropped a pansy in the hall The other children passed it by and one of I them unknowingly stepped upon Ripon it But she saw it and lifted it and tenderly smoothed its crushed petals petals for for was it not like herself a living thing bruised and for because it could not speak And still the tears stood in her eyes but hut did not fall A door opened The matron came out and p passel passed sed her by with scarcely a glance The matrons matron's little daughter too ran by She saw caw the child throw waist and her arms arme about her mothers mother's she saw the stern face of the woman break into a smile Then the tears that had stood in her eyes for so long rolled q quietly down her cheeks Brushing them hastily away she stole out into the farthest corner of the big lot and there face downward among the dandelions sobbed till the evening fell When she went back to the Home Home- back to the she home-she she was scolded for running away she should have pared the potatoes and set the supper table and washed the dishes dishes and swept the fl floor or She was sent to bed hungry too but she soon forgot that in sleep An And l she dreamed that her own mother came and kissed her and she was very happy When morning came she almost wished that she could have slept on forever and never again feel lonely or long for a loving word or weep because she was so stupid Inga Naga |