The Strand Magazine, Vol. 17, February 1899, No. 98.Various
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The Strand Magazine, Vol. 17, February 1899, No. 98.
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English literature -- Periodicals; Short stories, English -- Periodicals
"I should hope not," said Miss Prisms, severely. "You will learn double
lessons for to-morrow, Myra."
"It's all your fault!" said Myra, angrily, to the Memory-Saver, when she
got home. "You must learn all the lessons for me, and then I'm going to
slap you, do you hear? You horrid little thing!"
[Illustration: "HER BROTHER WAS MAKING A 'RIDICULOUS FUSS.'"]
The Memory-Saver heard well enough, and understood too. Myra was in a
very bad temper. Her brother had discovered that his death's-head moth
was missing, and was making what Myra called a "ridiculous fuss" about
it. He had not asked her if she knew where it was, but she felt very
uncomfortable all the same. She did not think he would have minded so
much. Being uncomfortable, she was cross; and as she dared not be cross
with Miss Prisms, she was cross with the Memory-Saver, and fulfilled her
promise of slapping him when he had done the double lessons for her. She
was too absorbed in her own trouble to notice that his box was half off
the wardrobe top when she put him--not over-gently--into it; and the
bump with which she landed on the floor as she got down from the chair
on which she had been standing quite drowned the bump the box made, as
it fell behind the wardrobe. The poor little Memory-Saver fell out with
a crash, and lay half stunned, feebly waving his little tags. No one
came to pick him up, so he lay there all through the long, dark night.
He was cracked all over, and something very peculiar had happened to his
interior. In fact, though he did not know it, all the partitions had at
last given way, and the French, history, spelling, geography, and tables
had run into one another, and were now all mixed in one great pulpy mass
inside him. No wonder he felt uncomfortable!
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