She must--she must--she must--" "Well, what must she?
That will be something different from a quality," the teacher interrupted the laborious speech of the boy.
"She must not always be reminding that it is time to go to bed," it now came out.
"Ritz," the teacher said now in a severe tone, "is the school the place to joke ?" But Ritz looked at the teacher with such unmistakable fright and astonishment, that the latter saw that it was an honest opinion which Ritz had made use of in his sentence.

He therefore changed his mind and said more gently: "Your sentence is unfitting and incorrect, for your three qualities are not there.

Do you understand that, Ritz?
You will have to make three sentences at home, all alike; but do not forget the different qualities.

Have you understood me ?" "Yes, teacher," answered Ritz in deepest dejection, for he already saw himself sitting alone in the evening thinking and thinking and gnawing on his slate pencil, while Sally and Edi could pursue their merry entertainments.
Now the end of school was announced.

In a short time the door was opened, and the boys and girls hastened out toward the open place before the schoolhouse, where suddenly all were crowded together like a huge ball, from the midst of which came a tremendous noise and confused shoutings.