But she was soon to
see how much meaner Danny could be.
Workmen had recently finished putting some new water pipes, and a place
for the children to drink, in the school yard, and one morning, speaking
to the whole school, Mr. Tetlow made a little speech, warning the
children not to play with the faucets, and spray the water about, as
some had done, in fun.
"Whoever is caught playing with the faucets in the yard after this will
be severely punished," he said.
As it happened, Flossie and Freddie were not at school that day, Freddie
having a slight sore throat. His mother kept him home, and Flossie
would not go without him. So they did not hear the warning, and Bert
and Nan did not think to tell the smaller children of it.
Two days later Freddie was well enough to go back to class, and Flossie
accompanied him. It was at the morning recess when, as Freddie went to
get a drink at one of the new faucets, Danny saw him. A gleam of
mischief came into the eyes of the school bully.
"Want to see the water squirt, Freddie?" asked Danny. "That's a new
kind of faucet. It squirts awful far."
"Does it?" asked Freddie, innocently. "How do you make it?" He had no
idea it was forbidden fun.
"Just put your thumb over the hole, and turn the water on," directed
Danny. "You, too, Flossie. It won't hurt you."
Danny looked all around, thinking he was unobserved as he gave this bad
advice. Naturally, Freddie and Flossie, being so young, suspected
nothing.
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