wet-paper

Updated: May 27, 2025

While she recited a long account of his past experiences with teachers, and dictated her wishes as to his treatment by the little girl, he acted as interpreter. When she finally departed, with admonitions and sidewise wags of the head, he shuffled defiantly to a desk. He occupied his first hour in slyly flipping wet-paper wads at a picture of Shakspere pinned above him on the wall.

Eleanor Gates - The Biography of a Prairie Girl