Kaetheli, you magpie, can you stop a moment and listen to what I am saying?
You all are going home.

I have had enough, and everyone--do you understand ?--everyone takes home some home-work for punishment.

As you go out, come to my desk, one after the other, and each will receive his special task." So it was done, and at once the whole crowd rushed with joyous hearts into the open.

For the home-work did not at all suppress the joy that school had closed a whole half-hour early.

Outside on the playground, the groups who had common interests at once crowded together.