When Lulu was a little girl, she lived with her auntie and uncle. The
front door of their house was made half of glass, and there was a
shutter which covered the glass part of the door at night.
Lulu's auntie told her that when it was windy weather she must go round
to the =back= door, lest the front door should get a bang, and some of
the panes of glass be broken.
I am afraid Lulu did not always remember to obey her auntie, for one
very windy morning she came home from school, and went as usual to the
front door. She managed to open it and to get inside safely, then the
door closed with a loud bang, for the wind was very strong, and it
happened just as auntie had feared--a large pane of glass fell out of
the door, and was shivered into a thousand pieces.
Auntie was very angry, and Lulu was so unhappy, and cried so much that
she could not eat her dinner. When her uncle came home and heard the
story, and knew how sorry Lulu was, he said: "Oh, well, dry your tears,
we will call and ask old James to come and mend the door, and my little
girl must do what auntie tells her next time".
So Lulu trotted back to afternoon school, holding to the hand of her
kind uncle, and they called to tell James to put a new pane of glass
into the door. But Lulu has not forgotten her disobedience, and the
banging of auntie's door, although it is now more than forty years ago.
(Blackboard.)
Close Doors Softly.