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Updated: May 20, 2025
We sat up in the bed in turns, and glared into the darkness towards the schoolmistress's room, which was n't more than three yards away; then we would lie back again and shiver. We were having a time. But at last we heard a noise from the young lady's room. We listened all we knew. Miss Ribbone was up and dressing. We could hear her teeth chattering and her knees knocking together.
Clothes! she's nothin' else but clothes." Then they came out, and Joe began to spit and said he thought there must have been something on that brush. Miss Ribbone did n't stay the full month she left at the end of the second week; and Mother often used to wonder afterwards why the creature never came to see us. The Man with the Bear-Skin Cap.
When Joe recovered he held out his plate. "More pumpkin, Dad." "If what, sir?" Dad was prompting him in manners. "IF?" and Joe laughed again. "Who said 'if'? I never." Just then Miss Ribbone sprang to her feet, knocking over the box she had been sitting on, and stood for a time as though she had seen a ghost. We stared at her. "Oh," she murmured at last, "it was the dog! It gave me such a fright!"
Miss Ribbone had just arrived. She was the mistress of the local school, and had come to board with us a month. The parents of the score of more of youngsters attending the school had arranged to accommodate her, month about, and it was our turn. And did n't Mother just load us up how we were to behave particularly Joe.
He talked away learnedly to Miss Ribbone about everything. Told her, without swearing once, how, when at school in the old country, he fought the schoolmaster and leathered him well. A pure lie, but an old favourite of Dad's, and one that never failed to make Joe laugh. He laughed now. And such a laugh! a loud, mirthless, merciless noise. No one else joined in, though Miss Ribbone smiled a little.
Then we heard her sneak back to bed again and felt disappointed and colder than ever, for we had hoped she was getting up early, and would n't want the bed any longer that night. Then we too crawled out and dressed and tried it that way. In answer to Mother at breakfast, next morning, Miss Ribbone said she had "slept very well indeed." We did n't say anything. She was n't much of an eater.
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