exercise and I couldn't get hold of it till today
when she went away with Wiggle, perch fishing.
Licorice Stick says they're running in the brook
most wonderful but you can't believe half what he
says. Seems as if the perch know when school closes,
least ways that's what your uncle says.

Pee-Wee reread these enchanting words. Pepsy! Wiggle! Perch fishing!
Licorice Stick! And school closing! And perch that knew about it. That
was the sort of perch for Pee-Wee. He read on:

I told your uncle I reckoned you wouldn't care to
come here being you live in such a lively place but he
said this summer you would like to come for there will
be plenty for you to do because there is going to be a
spelling match in the town hall and an Uncle Tom's
Cabin show in August.

You can have plenty of milk and fresh eggs and Miss
Arabella Bellison who has the school is staying this
summer and she will let you in the schoolhouse where
there is a library of more than forty books but some of
the pages are gone Pepsy says.

She says to tell you she will show you where she cut
her initials but I tell her not to put such ideas in
your head and she knows how to climb in even if the door
is locked, such goings on as she and Wiggle have, they
will be the death of me.