schoolward-bound

Updated: May 15, 2025

No child was too small or too timid to refrain from embittering his mother's life with clamorous upbraidings if breakfast were late, or his school-outfit of clothes were not ready to the last button, so that he could join the procession of schoolward-bound children, already streaming past his door at a quarter past eight.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher - The Bent Twig