Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary

Author:Beverly Cleary [Cleary, Beverly]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

5

Ramona’s Engagement Ring

“No!” said Ramona on the first rainy morning after she had started kindergarten.

“Yes,” said Mrs. Quimby.

“No!” said Ramona. “I won’t!”

“Ramona, be sensible,” said Mrs. Quimby.

“I don’t want to be sensible,” said Ramona. “I hate being sensible!”

“Now, Ramona,” said her mother, and Ramona knew she was about to be reasoned with. “You have a new raincoat. Boots cost money, and Howie’s old boots are perfectly good. The soles are scarcely worn.”

“The tops aren’t shiny,” Ramona told her mother. “And they’re brown boots. Brown boots are for boys.”

“They keep your feet dry,” said Mrs. Quimby, “and that is what boots are for.”

Ramona realized she looked sulky, but she could not help herself. Only grown-ups would say boots were for keeping feet dry. Anyone in kindergarten knew that a girl should wear shiny red or white boots on the first rainy day, not to keep her feet dry, but to show off. That’s what boots were for—showing off, wading, splashing, stamping.

“Ramona,” said Mrs. Quimby sternly. “Get that look off your face this instant. Either you wear these boots or you stay home from school.”

Ramona recognized that her mother meant what she said, and so, because she loved kindergarten, she sat down on the floor and dragged on the hated brown boots, which did not go with her new flowered plastic raincoat and hat.

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