Grand-Daddy Whiskers, M.D. by Nellie Mabel Leonard
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Tiny, Teenty and Buster gathered wild flowers to decorate their pretty
school-room. Pete and Dickie Grasshopper stopped on their way home from the Lake. "May we come to school, Miss Dot?" asked Dickie. "Surely; any one who wishes to learn to read and write may come. But you must obey your teacher." "We could not come every day," said Pete. "I shall not teach every day," smiled Dot. "One day is lesson day; the next is play day." "I brought this stick for you," said Dickie, presenting Dot a smooth willow stick. "If Bobsey Rabbit or Tony Spider play any tricks, just give 'em a walloping." "Thank you, Dickie. I will hang it over my desk, but I think I shall not need to use it." "She may wallop you, Dickie," laughed Pete as they hopped home. At last the school-room was finished. Limpy-toes and Buster rode around the village in the automobile and invited the children to come to Miss Squeaky's school. Limpy-toes got quite angry with Grandpa Bull Frog. "He was ever so impolite, Mammy," he complained. "He said he'd never send his family to a Graymouse school. He said that Uncle Squeaky's band |
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