Flossie and Freddie liked it very much in school. The kindergarten
teacher was very kind, and took an interest in all her pupils.

"Oh, mamma!" cried Flossie, coming in one day from school, "I've
learned how to make a house."

"And I can make a lantern, and a chain to hang it on, and I can put
it in front of Flossie's house!" exclaimed Freddie. "And, please,
mother, may I have some bread and jam. I'm awful hungry."

"Yes, dear, go ask Dinah," said Mrs. Bobbsey, with a smile. "And
then you may show me how you make houses and lanterns and a chain.
Are they real?"

"No," said Flossie, "they're only paper, but they look nice."

"I'm sure they must," said their mother.

After each of the twins had been given a large slice of bread and
butter and jam, they showed the latest thing they had learned at
school. Flossie did manage to cut out a house, that had a chimney
on it, and a door, besides two windows.

Freddie took several little narrow strips of paper, and pasting the
ends together, made a lot of rings. Each ring before being pasted,
was slipped into another, and soon he had a paper chain. To make
the lantern he used a piece of paper made into a roll, with slits
all around the middle of it where the light would have come out
had there been a candle in it. And the handle was a narrow slip