Peru High School - Narcissus Yearbook (Peru, IN)

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L. Qui, quae, quod, said Margaret over and over again, as she sat in a large, comfortable chair in her father's library. She was studying for a Latin examination on the following day. It was the last of the term and she was very anxious to get a good grade, because her father had promised if she stood at the head of the class that term he would take her to California dur- ing the vacation. Soon her mind began to wander and she could not keep her thoughts on her lesson. Now she is taking her examination. Her pencil could be heard moving swiftly over the paper. Presently it stopped. She had come to the last question, but she did not know it. She studied awhile, then she watched the girl who was across from her write. Margaret saw that a paper with the question answered was lying toward her. It was a great temptation, and she thought how disappointed she would be if she didnit get to take her trip. So she glanced at her neighbor's paper and got started on the answer, and then she was all right. She took her paper to the teacher, who said, I hope, Margaret, that you have done well, for you have been very faithful and deserve a good grade. , Again she is in the library at home, when a little, black, ugly bug ap- pears on the arm of her chair. Oh! What are you doing here, you nasty thing l she exclaimed. I'm your conscience, said the bug, and it is your fault I am black and ugly. Before you cheated this afternoon in school I was nice and white. But how did you know I cheated. I thought no one saw me? said Margaret. I have always been with you, and it is my business to tell you when you have done wrong. If you will repent and say you are sorry I will become white again. He seemed so sorry about it that Margaret began to feel terrible. She said she was sorry and that she would go and tell the teacher right away. It would be a dreadful humiliation, because all the school would know about it. But she said she would do it at any cost. The little bug began to turn white, and finally it stood out large and pure white. She awoke with a start, for the supper-bell had rung, and there stood her father in the doorway, having come to hunt her. There was her Latin book on her lap just where she had left off studying when her thoughts wan- dered away. - as