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teacher had decided before sentence was
pronounced, if they all liked the plan, to
give their culprit a little season of probation ;
one month, perhaps, and at the end of that
time, the whole school she had so insulted
should sit in judgment upon her ? How would
they like that ?

Huzza! up went the hands, school gravity
might go to the winds now, every body liked
that, and would express as much, and clap-
ping there was, and loud voices and confusion
unprecedented.

Then in one month, the teacher said, when
order was restored, the affair should be
decided,—on the twenty-ninth of the coming
September ; but, in the meantime, the sub-
ject never was to be alluded to, but all were
to treat the little culprit lovingly, like a very
dear friend, never causing her to feel by word
or look that any thing was pending.