University of Rhode Island - Renaissance / Grist Yearbook (Kingston, RI)

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D -e-f-g . . . Today I learnt to climb a tree. H-I-J-K ... I need a band-aid right away! j-m-n-o ... To the zoo today 1 want to go! P-Q-R-S . . . Spilled my milk and made a mess, t-u-v . . . Let me stay up to watch TV! W-X-Y and Z . . . Give me, give me, give me! Dr.-Grat-had-a-cat-who-once-ate-a-rat . . Look, Ma! I made it up! Dr.-Grat-had-a-Fat-cat-who-once-ate-a-rat-with-a-bat-on-a-mat-that-was-fat . . .Look Ma! 1 made it up! All by myself, Ma, I made it up! Two plus two is channel four, and four plus four equals more. Huh, Ma, doesn’t it? It’s NBC isn’t it, huh? E ver suddenly I was thrust into a square little brown wooden thing they told me was a desk. A big lady in front of the room handed out paper and said. “Draw a circle. F or six whole years I had learned plenty. I could draw green grass and big mountains, chimneys and houses and flowers a-bloom in May. And sky- scrapers and horses and oceans . . . “Draw a circle.” I sat at this square little thing, they told me was my desk, with a blank sheet of grainy-white rectangular construction paper right in front of me. 1 had my own box of 64 Crayola crayons and lots of ideas stored in my head and “Draw a circle I drew a circle, I did. and the circle looked empty. I made it into a small red sun. and drew hills, a house and a hundred flowers and . . . (The big lady walked over to my desk, and seeing my colorful creation of a house on a hill, blooming flowers and a happy sky. she broke my red crayon in half.) “Draw a circle!”

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