What Katy Did At School

I got up from my seat to see if I could find the speakers; and sure enough, there on one of the cat-tail bulrushes, I spied two tiny pale-green creatures.

Their eyes seemed to be weak, for they both wore black goggles.

They had six legs apiece,-two short ones, two not so short, and two very long.

These last legs had joints like the springs to buggy-tops; and as I watched, they began walking up the rush, and then I saw that they moved exactly like an old-fashioned gig.

In fact, if I hadn't been too big, I think I should have heard them creak as they went along.

They didn't say anything so long as I was there, but the moment my back was turned they began to quarrel again, and in the same old words-"Katy did." "Katy didn't." "She did." "She didn't."