Betsy and Billy by Carolyn Haywood

Author:Carolyn Haywood [Haywood, Carolyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

7. Valentine Hearts

"Mother," cried Betsy, as she rushed in from school one day, "I have to take a quarter of a pound of butter to school tomorrow."

"A quarter of a pound of butter!" said Mother. "What are you going to do with a quarter of a pound of butter?"

"We're going to make cookies," said Betsy. "A very special kind of cookie, only what kind is a secret."

"Where are you going to make the cookies?" asked Mother.

"Oh, in the school kitchen," said Betsy. "All of the children are going to bring something, everything that goes in cookies. Miss Grey said if we each brought a little bit, when we put it all together there would be enough to make a lot of cookies."

"I see," said Mother. "What are you going to do with so many cookies?"

"That's a secret," said Betsy, as she danced out of the room.

Now the secret was that the children were making cookies for their mothers. They were to be Valentine Cookies. Miss Grey was going to bring some cookie cutters shaped like hearts.

Valentine's Day was just two days off. The children had made paper Valentines for each other. Betsy made a red heart for her baby sister. She pasted gold stars all over the heart.

Miss Grey had made a make-believe postbox with a great big red heart on the outside. It was so big that it almost covered the box. As the children finished making their Valentines, they dropped them into the box. Betsy hoped that there would be a lot of Valentines for her when Miss Grey opened the box on Valentine's Day.

When the children had asked Miss Grey if they could make Valentines for their mothers, Miss Grey had said, "How would you like to make Valentine Cookies?" The children were delighted, for they felt that nothing could be nicer than Valentine Cookies.

The next morning Betsy started off to school with her quarter of a pound of butter. Just before she reached the school she met Billy. Billy had a paper bag filled with flour. His mother had wrapped it up carefully and tied it with a string. Billy was now using the bag of flour for a ball. He was tossing it up in the air and catching it.

"You better watch out," said Betsy, "or you will drop that flour."

"Aw, I'm a good catcher," said Billy, tossing the little package higher than ever.

Just then Billy slipped on some ice on the pavement. Ker-plunk! went Billy and sat down very hard.

Ker-plunk! went the bag of flour, right on the top of Billy's head. The bag burst and the flour went all over Billy. He looked so funny, sitting in the middle of the pavement covered with flour, that Betsy couldn't help laughing.

Billy rubbed the flour out of his eyes. "Gee!" he said, "I slipped."

He scrambled to his feet and tried to brush the flour off of his suit. When he finished, the white flour was smeared all over him. Then he pulled off his hat and the flour got all over his hair.

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