|I wanted to be good. I wanted to have lots of fun.
When I got up in the morning I said, "Here's another long day, and no
school." I did n't have to hurry up. Mamma let me take as long as I
liked to eat my breakfast.
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After breakfast was the worst. We wanted to do the biggest lot of things
you ever knew, but we could n't.
We began to play store. That was fun for a little while. Then Susan
scolded because we took her new pie-pans for our angleworms. We sold the
worms ten for a cent for the boys to fish with.
When we were tired of the store, we had to put things all back in their
places.
We wanted a circus. Wo made a good one with our cat Mopsy for a tiger.
Six boys gave us five pins each to see it. They found the pins in their
mothers' cushions.
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Edgar Lane's mother bought a ticket. We made tickets out of pretty
colored paper.
I lost mother's best scissors somehow. It took all the money in my bank
to pay for them.
When we were having some jolly fun Susan called out, "You bad, wicked
children, you've got your ma's best shawl for a curtain."
We did n't know it was her best shawl. It didn't look nice. Papa said it
was camel's hair. We never thought camels had such queer hair.
We didn't play circus any more.
We went in the garden and camped out. We played the trees were high
mountains. I was on the Alps. My sister in the grammar school told me
about the Alps.
Edgar was in the same tree on another limb.
He called his "The Catskills." He went to those mountains once. We had
a splendid time. Pretty soon Grandpa came out and said, "Here, you young
rascals, come down, you will shake off all my nice fruit!"
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There don't seem to be any place for boys.