Part 15 (1/2)
Ruby hardly knehat to say, so she blushed with pleasure, and did not answer
”Now you can go,” said Miss Chapman, and so Ruby walked over to the door, opened it, and turned around and stood exactly in theback her foot, she ravely closed the door after her and ran back to Aunt E about,” she said after she had told her aunt how kindly Miss Chapot real mad at Maude, for she asked me in such a superior sort of way if I sposed we should be in the same class 'Do you spose you are as far advanced as I aht I was ever so uessed I was just as smart as she was, but then I remembered it was school and I did n't, for I knew I irls she is I am way ahead of her Well, I did think I would just reuess maybe I had n't better; for she certainly could courtesy when I didn't know the first thing about it, and so that sort of makes us even She did n't seeabout it, she would know, and I should n't feel very nice if she should tellthat I could n't do without being showed how Don't you think I had n't better say anything about being ahead of her?”
”I am sure you had better not,” said Aunt E, Ruby, it is because it is not a kind thing to boast, or to res You know you would not like it yourself, and that ought to be reason enough for your never doing it to any one else What is the Golden Rule?”
”Do unto others as you would they should do unto you,” repeated Ruby, promptly
”Yes; and thatthat you would not like to have done to yourself,” Aunt E
”I knohat I will do,” exclaio down to dinner with her, for I just spect she feels sort of lonesome I saw her once at recess, and she was all by herself, and had n't any one to play with I will stay with her till she gets a littleattention to the Golden Rule; for if I was all by ot you, Aunt Elad if Maude would stay withas happy as if she had not had such a burst of tears but half an hour ago
CHAPTER XVI
MAUDE'S TROUBLES
Poor little Maude had not been enjoying this first day at school It had begun with tears, and she had just been having another burst of anger, and had thought that she could not possibly stay in such a school another hour It was a new experience to the self-willed child to have to give up her oay, and subh she had rief, without the least trouble, as she had been to dancing-school, and could courtesy in the rievance waiting for her as soon as she reached her roo for her
”Maude, I want to help you arrange your hair a little differently,” she said ”Miss Chapirls to wear their hair here at school as you wear yours, flying all over your shoulders She does not think it neat, nor does she like little girls to pay so much attention to their appearance while they are at school Of course she wants you to be neat, but not dressed up as if you were going to a party She likes her scholars to wear their hair braided, and I will help you braid yours now, as I suppose you cannot do it alone if you are not used to it, and you have no room-mate yet to help you”
Maude looked at Mrs Board of which vain little Maude was prouder than another, it was of the crinkled, waving hair that fell below her shoulders She rarely forgot it, and was always playing with a lock of it, or tipping her head over her shoulder, like a little peacock ad his fine tail
”I don't want to wear it braided,” she exclaily little pig-tails if it was braided, and I won't have it that way Oh, I want to go hole bit I am sure my mamma would n't let irl”
Mrs Boardman was very patient with the spoiled child
[Illustration: ”MRS BOARDMAN WAS VERY PATIENT WITH THE SPOILED CHILD”
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”Hush, dear; I would n't talk that way,” she said ”I hoped your mamma had spoken to you about it before she went away, for I told her that Miss Chapman would want you to wear your hair differently She told me that she wanted you to follow all the rules of the school, whatever they were; so I know she wishes you to wear your hair as Miss Chapman requires the others to wear their hair Now, letnear dinner-tian to cry
”And now I must tell you about another rule,” said Mrs Boardreat et used to theainst the rules to sit upon your bed during the day-time You see it will make the bed look untidy, and that is the reason for this rule Noill straighten the bed out nicely, and then it will be quite tidy again”
Maude did not o home,” she sobbed ”I can't stay here It is a perfectly dreadful place I have to do everything I don't like to do and I can't do the least little tiny thing that I like to do, and ly, and I just can't stand it”
Soirl for her fretful words, but kind-hearted Mrs Boardine how hard it must seem to a child who had never been under any control at all, to find herself obliged to obey rules, whether she liked theolden hair