re to make a bow
and then look to the left, then to the right and say: 'Oh, I wonder
where she can be?' Then along comes Flossie, as Little Miss Muffet, and
she asks you whom you are looking for."

"Yes, and then I say I'm looking for Mary, who had a little lamb, for I
lent her my horn, and she went away with it to help Bo-Peep find her
sheep; and now I can't blow my horn to get the cows out of the corn,"
Freddie said.

"That's it!" exclaimed the teacher in a whisper, for they had all talked
in low voices behind the curtain, so the other children would not hear
them. "You remember very well, Freddie. Now we will begin."

The curtain was pulled back, and Freddie walked out from one side where
some boxes had been piled up to look like a house.

"Oh, I wonder where she can be," said Freddie, looking to the left and
to the right. "Where can she be?"

"Whom are you looking for?" asked Flossie, coming out from the other
side of the platform.

"For Mary, who had a little lamb," went on Freddie. "I lent her my horn
and----"

But just then there was a crash, and down tumbled the pile of boxes that
was the make-believe house, and with them tumbled Johnnie Wilson, who
was dressed up like Little Jack Horner.

"Oh, I've hurt my thumb! I've hurt my thumb!" he cried. "Now I can't
pull the plum out of the pie!"

CHAPTER VIII

SNOOP IN TROUBLE

Some of the children laughed. Some screamed. Others looked as if they
wanted to cry. Of course the play came to an end almost before it had
started.

"Oh Johnnie, why did you do that?" cried Miss Earle, hurrying out in her
Mother Goose dress, and picking up the little fellow. "How did it
happen?"

Johnnie had started to cry, but, finding that he was not hurt much
except on his thumb, he stopped his tears, and said:

"I climbed up on the pile of boxes so I could see better, and they fell
over with me."

"They weren't put there to be climbed on," the teacher said with a
smile. "I'm glad it is no worse. You came on the stage before it was
your turn, Johnnie. Now we'll try it over again."

By this time the other children had become quieter, having seen that
nothing much had happened. The janitor was sent for and he put the boxes
up again, this time nailing them together so they would not fall over.

"But you must not climb on top of them again," said Miss Earle.

"No'm, I won't," promised Johnnie.

"Now start over again, Freddie," the teacher told the little blue-eye