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The Bureau of Dreams to be Continued
Page 95
Miss Gracing sung while playing the piano. “Over the river and through the woods, to grandmother’s house we go. The horse knows the way to carry the sleigh through the white and drifting snow.”
Zeke particularly liked that song and from the words, he unconsciously developed his idea of what a house was. Unlike the things called houses in Bayonne, NJ, a house was more like the structures he had only seen in paintings, surrounded by trees, open space and water.
When the bell rang, everyone looked at her and she said; “I’ll see you all tomorrow.”
Zeke brightly deduced that class was dismissed and got up to reform the entry line and everyone got behind him. It was 3:15 and Miss Gracing led the group out the way they had come in. When the contingent got to the fire escape, Zeke saw his Mom waiting at the gate. He also saw kids ranging in ages from five to sixteen doing and yelling, all kinds of things. It reminded him of some movie he had seen in which the Bastille was stormed.
Zeke walked over to his protector and she said; “How did it go?”
“It was okay. There was one really stupid game, though.”