`` Susie Perkins came to school today with a lovely red carnelian ring . I wanted it dreadfully , and wished I was her with all my might . Well , she drew a picture of Mr. Davis , with a monstrous nose and a hump , and the words , ` Young ladies , my eye is upon you ! ' coming out of his mouth in a balloon thing . We were laughing over it when all of a sudden his eye was on us , and he ordered Susie to bring up her slate . She was parry_lized with fright , but she went , and oh , what do you think he did ? He took her by the ear -- the ear ! Just fancy how horrid ! -- and led her to the recitation platform , and made her stand there half an hour , holding the slate so everyone could see . '' `` Did n't the girls laugh at the picture ? '' asked Jo , who relished the scrape . `` Laugh ? Not one ! They sat still as mice , and Susie cried quarts , I know she did . I did n't envy her then , for I felt that millions of carnelian rings would n't have made me happy after that . I never , never should have got over such a agonizing mortification . '' And Amy went on with her work , in the proud consciousness of virtue and the successful utterance of two long words in a breath . `` I saw something I liked this morning , and I meant to tell it at dinner , but I forgot , '' said Beth , putting Jo 's topsy-turvy basket in order as she talked . `` When I went to get some oysters for Hannah , Mr. Laurence was in the fish shop , but he did n't see me , for I kept behind the fish barrel , and he was busy with Mr. Cutter the fish-man . A poor woman came in with a pail and a mop , and asked Mr. Cutter if he would let her do some scrubbing for a bit of fish , because she had n't any dinner for her children , and had been disappointed of a day 's work .
Mr. Cutter was in a hurry and said ` No ' , rather crossly , so she was going away , looking hungry and sorry , when Mr. XXXXX hooked up a big fish with the crooked end of his cane and held it out to her .
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