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“Can you guess what happened?” asked Miss Tweedy looking

embarrassed, hanging her head and sucking her finger; I

thought she was play-acting but Sarah went up to Miss Tweedy

and patted her arm.

“It’s alright miss Tweedy,” she said, “Don’t worry, we all make

mistakes. I’m sure we will want to eat it even if all the cherries

sank to the bottom and you turned it upside down.” “Yes, that’s

right miss,” we all chimed in, “Don’t worry miss, we will eat it!”

Delighted, we all sat around and had a piece of upside-down
cherry cake. I turned mine the right way to make it tasted as

good as it usually did.

Later on that day Timmy, one of the youngest boys in the class

was writing some of his letters upside down. He was a shy, quiet

boy and when Miss Tweedy showed him how to change them

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