Franklin High School - Molecule Yearbook (Franklin, VT)

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f 13. her handwriting. She finally decide! to take one. In English class that the teacher called for the stories without thenames. Katherine was ,literally speaking, shaking in her snoes as she handed in her story. Immediately her conscience began botnering her. By the tine school was over she thought her head would burs,, she was so worried . When she reached home her mother thought she was sick, --lerhaos coming down with the gripoe which everyone was having, and Katherine agreed that she aas. She even sipped ginger tea, let her mother tie a handkerchief about her greased throat, and went to cel. She didn't feel like going to school the next day, but.nevertheless, she went. She told herself that if the teacher wanted to find out, sne wanted to be there. Sure enough, in Enrlish clasf the teacher said, And now there's a little matter I should like to ask you,about these short stories. There are twelve in the class but only eleven stories. If someone didn t wnte( one, please tell me; otherwise I shall start looking for a misplaced one, Of course Katherine didn't tell, and no one said anything. That night the teacher, Miss Livingston, hunted through all her earners where the lost story might be. But alasl It wasn't therej3he told her mother about the incident . Mrs. Livingston, who was a good, judge of human nature, thought perhaps her daughter could find the guiltyone by his or her actions. Charlie thought of Katherine as the guilty one; then he was asham- ed of having'.'stfe would do such a thing. The next day, however, when sne was excused from English class, he knew that something was wrong, every- one in the classroom proved that he had written a story by giving the title and telling where he had found his idea. Asplatherine was the only oerson absent , Miss Livingston thought with mucl anxiety that he must be the culprit. She hated to think this, for she had always thought a lot of Katherine. Vhen Katherine reached home she told her mother she was sick, and went to bed. She was just dozing off when she heard the door bell ring. Like someone in a daze she heard her mother go to the door, and lust a3 she expected it was Miss Livingston. She heard her mother say, M7hy yes I’m sure stoi'k be glad to see you.' Then she heard Miss Living- ston coming up the stairs. Mrs. Lane then excused herself and left them alone. Miss Lane lost no time in asking her question'.'Katherine , she •a-.id, did you write a short story?1 Katherine began to cry in her pillow ; then she sobbed out the :.e story. I never would have thought that of you if anyone else had told :-V, said Miss Livingston. I must say I am very deeply disappointed in ,rou, and much as I hate to, I shall have to give you a failing mark for the first half year of English. This hurt Katherine,who was trvinm for a scholarship, but,nevertheless,she had to take her medicine. After Miss Livingston left.Katherine lay thinking about the half year of English. Suddenly,she remembered what her grandmother had always said - He made his bed;now let him lie in it.

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