“Finding that she did not answer, he turned and looked at her. She was intent on her sewing, but he fancied that the flush of happiness suddenly had fled her cheeks.”
“My mamma,” reported Morris Mowgelewsky, choosing a quiet moment during a writing period to engage his teacher’s attention, “my mamma likes you shall come on mine house for see her.”
“Very well, dear,” answered Miss Bailey with a patience born of many such messages from the parents of her small charges. “I think I shall have time to go this afternoon.”
Myra Kelly, who later became Mrs. Allan Macnaughton, was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 187a6 and died in England in 1910. She lived almost all of her short life, however, in New York City. Here she was educated in the public schools and at Teachers College, Columbia University. She was an American teacher and author. She taught in the New York public schools from 1899 to 1901 and at Teachers College in 1902 and 1903. She first became known by her stories of children in the primary schools of New York City. She wrote chiefly of the children of the East Side, with whom she had had first-hand experience, while teaching in the public schools. Her stories give the Yiddish dialect inimitably and they show a fine, wise tolerance as well as a shrewd knowledge of child character.
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