stand on your desk."

So Sunny Boy put all the soldiers away except the general who rode a
horse and was very handsome indeed. He stood him up on his desk and
left him there while the class went into Miss May's room for assembly.
When they came back, Miss Davis sent Sunny Boy to the board to color a
picture she had drawn. Sunny Boy loved to use the colored chalk, and
he forgot all about the lead soldier general while he worked away at
the board.

When he had finished the picture--and Miss Davis said he had done it
very nicely--it was time for the writing lesson.

"I think we will try to use ink to-day," the teacher said. "We will
take great pains and not hurry. And please be careful of your fingers."

Whenever Miss Davis tried to teach her class to make an "M" or a "T" or
some other letter in ink, it was strange, but more ink seemed to get on
their fingers than anywhere else! But Miss Davis said they would learn
in good time and that she had inked her fingers, too, when she was a
little girl and was learning to write.

Sunny Boy took his seat to be ready for the writing lesson, and the
first thing he saw was the lead general lying on his back. He had
fallen off his horse!

"Though I don't see how he could fall off," argued Sunny Boy to
himself. "He screws on the little screw in the saddle. I wonder if
somebody unscrewed him!"