GRAY LADY AT SCHOOL ot 
“Yes, ma’am,” came the reply as with one voice. 
Sarah Barnes had the honour of taking Gray Lady’s 
hand as she went to the carriage, and Tommy Todd closed 
the door without any one giving him a hint. 
Then, before closing the schoolhouse for the night, his 
special duty, he began a hunt for the rat-trap, which he 
soon found in the wood-box, but instead of taking the 
rats home as usual for Mike, his father’s terrier, to “have 
fun”’ with, he drowned them as quickly as possible in the 
brook that ran below the hill, for he thought to himself 
as they were things that must be killed Goldilocks would 
think this the kindest way. 
