The Fun They Had

Margie even wrote about it that night in her diary. on the page headed 17 May 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 pages, which were yellow 

and crinkly ,and it was awfully funny to read words that stood still instead of moving the way they were supposed to_on a screen, you know. and then when they turned back to the page before, it had the same 

words on it thet iy had had when they read it the first time,"gee,"said tommy ,"what a waste. when you, re through with the book, you just, throw it away, i guess. our television screen must  have had  a million 

books  on it and it, s good for plenty more, i wouldn, t throw it away."

"same with mine," said margie. she was eleven and hadn,t seen as many telebook as  tommy had he was thirteen.she said,"where did you find it?

"in my hous ."he pointed without looking, because he was busy reading, "in the attic."          "what,s it about?"   "school."