Show washington and the corporal marys teacher had asked the class t to 0 rewrite tn ki their own words a story she had told them the day before about washington and one of his corporals mary had been absent and had not ile heard a rd the story but it did not occur to her to tell her teacher and ask to be excused cant was not in her vocabulary her ideas of corporals were somewhat hazy but she made up la in originality what she lacked in accuracy she wrote industriously and soon goon produced the following masterpiece george washington was riding through the woods one day with some of his men As they were riding along lie he saw way up in the top of an old tree ft a big corporal sitting on a nest of little corporals one of the men shot at the big corporal but missed him and he flew down and pecked george washington on the nose youths companion 1 onRa plon |