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Chapter XV. A Tempest in the School Teapot

           Wright’slanetheywereveryapttoarrivethere,breathlessandgasping,somethreeminutestoolate.

           OnthefollowingdayMr.Phillipswasseizedwithoneofhisspasmodicfitsofreformandannouncedbeforegoinghometodinner,thatheshouldexpecttofindallthescholarsintheirseatswhenhereturned.Anyonewhocameinlatewouldbepunished.

           AlltheboysandsomeofthegirlswenttoMr.Bell’ssprucegroveasusual,fullyintendingtostayonlylongenoughto“pickachew.”Butsprucegrovesareseductiveandyellownutsofgumbeguiling;theypickedandloiteredandstrayed;andasusualthefirstthingthatrecalledthemtoasenseoftheflightoftimewasJimmyGlovershoutingfromthetopofapatriarchaloldspruce“Master’scoming.”

           Thegirlswhowereontheground,startedfirstandmanagedtoreachtheschoolhouseintimebutwithoutasecondtospare.Theboys,whohadtowrigglehastilydownfromthetrees,werelater;andAnne,whohadnotbeenpickinggumatallbutwaswanderinghappilyinthefarendofthegrove,waistdeepamongthebracken,singingsoftlytoherself,withawreathofriceliliesonherhairasifsheweresomewilddivinityoftheshadowyplaces,waslatestofall.Annecouldrunlikeadeer,however;runshedidwiththeimpishresultthatsheovertooktheboysatthedoorandwassweptintotheschoolhouseamongthemjustasMr.Phillipswasintheactofhanginguphishat.

           Mr.

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