Read "Jessie" by Walter Aimwell online for free on Textopian. Full text with search, annotations, highlights, and AI-powered reading aids.
The academy term was now about to close, and the students were quite / earnestly engaged in reviewing studies, preparatory to the approaching / examination. Nothing else was talked much about, even by the boys. / Ronald came marching into the house one afternoon, fresh from school, / repeating the words:
"Step by step-step by step-step by step; " adding, "that's our / countersign, mother-the scholar's countersign; Mr. Upton gave it to us / to-day."