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Why do you sit there on the floor so quiet and silent, tell me, mother dear?

I shall bring it to you myself without waiting, and letter by letter help you to read my writing.

What has happened to you that you look so strange?

I saw the postman bringing letters in his bag for almost everybody in the town.

But don't be unhappy about that, mother dear.

I know the postman does not like to give you the really nice letters.

Haven't you got a letter from father today?

But, mother, why do you smile?

I myself will write all father's letters; you will not find a single mistake.

Only, father's letters he keeps to read himself. I am sure the postman is a wicked man.

I shall write from A right up to K.

The rain is coming in through the open window, making you all wet, and you don't mind it.

You don't believe that I can write as nicely as father does!

But I shall rule my paper carefully, and write all the letters beautifully big.

When I finish my writing, do you think I shall be so foolish as father and drop it into the horrid postman's bag?

Tomorrow is market day in the next village. You ask your maid to buy some pens and papers.

Do you hear the gong striking four? It is time for my brother to come home from school.