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 . Those compositions would atone for much . Here is Ned Clay 's , address , spelling , and grammar as originally penned . '' ` Miss teacher ShiRley Green gabels . p.e. Island can birds '' ` Dear teacher I think I will write you a composition about birds . birds is very useful animals . my cat catches birds . His name is William but pa calls him tom . he is oll striped and he got one of his ears froz of last winter . only for that he would be a good-looking cat . My unkle has adopted a cat . it come to his house one day and woudent go away and unkle says it has forgot more than most people ever knowed .
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