Going to Town

"Which is it?"*

*At the school where my mother worked, the two
first-grade teachers were Miss Paine and Mrs.
Hacking. One morning the mother of a student
called in the middle of a flu epidemic to excuse
her daughter from school.

"Is she in Paine or Hacking?" the school secretary asked.

"She feels fine," said the confused mom. "We have
company, and I'm keeping her home."
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