They had to go down a steep hill. Edie held back on the wheels and Susan held back on the back of the chair. Susan leaned to the side behind her mother hoping no one would see her. Edie was not happy about Susan going to this country school. The school house was still the one room building that it's been for a hundred years. The population hadn't grown in years. As soon as the children were of age, they moved to the cities where there was work. Well, at least most of them. Edie didn't like the idea that Susan was the only third grader that year, so the teacher kept forgetting her. For each class, the teacher would take to front of the room. First, would be the first graders with reading (there were four students in that class) then the second graders (five in that class) and so on until ninth grade (which had two girls and they had to carry the drinking water for the class and get the fire wood for the big wood stove that stood in the middle of the classroom).
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