Hester Boulter wanted ` to wear her Sunday dress every day and eat in the sitting room . ' Hannah Bell wanted ` to be good without having to take any trouble about it . ' Marjory White , aged ten , wanted to be a WIDOW . Questioned why , she gravely said that if you were n't married people called you an old maid , and if you were your husband bossed you ; but if you were a widow there 'd be no danger of either . The most remarkable wish was Sally Bell 's . She wanted a ` honeymoon . ' I asked her if she knew what it was and she said she thought it was an extra nice kind of bicycle because her cousin in Montreal went on a honeymoon when he was married and he had always had the very latest in bicycles ! `` Another day I asked them all to tell me the naughtiest thing they had ever done . I could n't get the older ones to do so , but the third class answered quite freely . Eliza Bell had ` set fire to her aunt 's carded rolls . ' Asked if she meant to do it she said , ` not altogether . ' She just tried a little end to see how it would burn and the whole bundle blazed up in a jiffy . Emerson Gillis had spent ten cents for candy when he should have put it in his missionary box . Annetta Bell 's worst crime was ` eating some blueberries that grew in the graveyard . ' Willie White had ` slid down the sheephouse roof a lot of times with his Sunday trousers on . ' ` But I was punished for it 'cause I had to wear patched pants to Sunday School all summer , and when you 're punished for a thing you do n't have to repent of it , ' declared Willie . `` I wish you could see some of their compositions ... so much do I wish it that I 'll send you copies of some written recently . Last week I told the fourth class I wanted them to write me letters about anything they pleased , adding by way of suggestion that they might tell me of some place they had visited or some interesting thing or person they had seen . They were to write the letters on real note paper , seal them in an envelope , and address them to me , all without any assistance from other people . Last Friday morning I found a pile of letters on my desk and that evening I realized afresh that teaching has its pleasures as well as its pains .
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