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Updated: June 29, 2025
This time the break-down was even crueller, for every pinafored pupil, not excluding Bloomah, was in her place, red-marked. Upon this saintly company burst suddenly Bloomah's mother, who, ignoring the teacher, and pointing her finger dramatically at her daughter, cried: 'Bloomah Beckenstein, go home! Bloomah's face became one large red mark, at which all the other girls' eyes were directed.
'She didn't go to school with the Meshummodim. Bloomah suddenly picked up her satchel. 'What's your books for? You don't fry fish with books. Mrs. Beckenstein wrested it away from her, and dashed it on the floor. The pencil-case rolled one way, the thimble another. 'But I can get to school for the afternoon attendance. 'Madness! With your sister in agony? Have you no feelings?
Twenty to ten, and the duck's egg of the absent was sorrowfully inscribed by the Recording Angel, who in Bloomah's case was a pale pupil-teacher with eyeglasses. But it was the Banner which loomed largest on the school horizon, intensifying Bloomah's anxiety and her mother's grievance. 'I don't see nothing, Mrs. Beckenstein iterated; 'no prize, no medal nothing but a red mark and a banner.
'Lock up the house! the latter would cry, when Bloomah tearfully pleaded for that course. 'My things are much too valuable to be locked up. But I know you'd rather lose my jewellery than your precious Banner. When Mrs. Beckenstein had new grandchildren and they came frequently Bloomah would be summoned in hot haste to the new scene of service.
Beckenstein broke her leg, and lay for weeks with the limb cased in plaster-of-Paris. That finished the chances of the Banner for a long time. Between nursing and house management Bloomah could scarcely ever put in an attendance.
'There's time after school, she faltered. 'What! shrieked Mrs. Beckenstein. 'And not give the fish time to get cold! It's that red mark again sooner than lose it you'd see your own sister eat hot fish. Be off at once to her, you unnatural brat, or I'll bang the frying-pan about your head. That'll give you a red mark yes, and a black mark, too!
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