20 THE CORN LADY 



saw them rubbing out marks in their books. 

 I sort of believe they have cleaner hearts for 

 having a clean school home, too. 



Mr. Brown, my director, heard that the 

 schoolhouse was clean and he came over to 

 look at it. He was well pleased and said 

 he liked the cover I had made for the chart, 

 too, and the good way in which the children 

 were behaving. Before he left, he said he 

 thought that since we had done the work 

 of cleaning the schoolhouse we should have 

 the pay. So he gave us an order for three 

 dollars, which was what they would have 

 had to pay to get it done. We couldn't 

 think what to get at first, but we finally de- 

 cided to get a water jar, with a cover and a 

 faucet, and each pupil said he would get 

 a cup to use. So Daddy, you see we are 

 getting very sanitary ; we have a clean, clean 

 schoolhouse and individual drinking cups. 



We also decided there were some more 

 things we needed. So we voted for a com- 

 mittee of the big boys and girls to plan a 

 pie and coffee social to raise some money. 

 We had such a nice time and there was 

 enough money as a result to buy material for 

 some pretty sash curtains, and to put a set 

 of supplementary readers in the school 



