The Fun they had

Margie even wrote about it that in her dairy . on the page headed  17May 2157 she wrote ,''today tommy Found a real book ; ''

it was a very old book . margie 's grandfather once said that when he was a little boy his grandfather told him that there was a time when all stories were printed on paper .

They turned the page , which were yellow and crikly ,and it was awfully funny to read words that stood still  instead of moving the way they were supposed to - on a sceen ,you know . And then when they turned back to the page before ,it had the same words on it  that it had had when they read it the first time. 

''Gee,'' said tommy , '' what a waste . when yoyu' re through with the book , you just throv it away , i guess . our television screen must have had a million book on it and  it 's good plenty more . I would n't throw it away .''

She said ,''where did you find it ?'' 

''In my house ,'' he pointed without  looking , because he was busy reading .''in the attic.''

''what 's it  about  ?''

''school .''

marhie was scornful .''school?what 's there to write about school ? I hate school .'' margie always  hateed school , but now she hated  it more than ever . The mechanical teacher hadc been giving her test after test in geography and she had been doing worse and wurse until her mother had shaken her head sorrowfully and sent for the country Inspector .

He was around little man with a red face and a whole box of tools with dials and wires. he smiled at margie and gave her an apple , then took the teacher apart . margie had hoped he would ' know how to put it together again  , but he  knew how  all right  ✅️  , and,  after an hour  or so  ,there  it was again,  large and  black  and  ugly,  with a  big  screen on  which all the  lessons  were shown and  the  questions  were asked  were  asked  . That  was n' t so bad  the  part margie  hated most was the  slot where she. Had  to  put  homework  and  test papers.  She  always  had to write ✍️  them out in  a punch  ?  code  they  made her learn when  she  was six years old, and  the  mechanical  teacher  calculated  the  marks in no time.