I want to know everything--so that I can grow up to be a teacher at our school." "And does your teacher know everything ?" "Oh yes! She knows the meaning of every word and all about foreign countries." "And would you like to be a teacher ?" "If I could only be clever enough!" sighed Esther.

"But then you see the teachers at our school are real ladies and they dress, oh, so beautifully! With fur tippets and six-button gloves.

I could never afford it, for even when I was earning five shillings a week I should have to give most of it to father and the children." "But if you're very good--I dare say some of the great ladies like the Rothschilds will buy you nice clothes.

I have heard they are very good to clever children." "No, then the other teachers would know I was getting charity! And they would mock at me.

I heard Miss Hyams make fun of a teacher because she wore the same dress as last winter.