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Chapter 2 - CHARPTER 2

Mrs Katsina, who was undaunted by the reactions and resistance of the crying children ad she touched them, quickly dipped her hand once again into her bag and produced her tambourine and started singing:

"How do you do when you meet boys and girls?

Ever so happy, happy, happy, happy,

Sing everywhere, dancing everywhere

Sing everywhere, dancing everywhere

Sing everywhere, dancing everywhere

"How do you do when you meet boys and girls?

Ever so happy, happy, happy, happy,

"How do you do when you meet boys and girls?

Ever so happy, happy, happy, happy.

As she sang the song and beat her tambourine Mrs Katsina swirled round the crying children, twirling and twisting and touching them with her tambourine.

Some teachers and older pupils came round to assist her and soon they got the attention of the wailing children. The grateful 🙏 parents who had been looking for a way of escape quickly disengaged themselves and left the scene.

Some of the infants like Maltina, however, refused to be cajoled or consoled; she wept and wept until she finally fell asleep and it was in this position that her mother met her when school finally closed for the day.

"How did she behave?" Asked Mrs Johnson Maltina's mother, when she arrived that afternoon.

"She was all tears until sleep eventually took over", Mrs Katsina replied truthfully. But she quickly added as she noticed the look of alarm and worry on the poor mother's face. "That's to be expected anyway, since you said this is the first time she is parting from you."

"Ma'am what can I do?" Mrs Johnson asked in a voice full of anxiety.

Maltina was her first child and at the same time, she was afraid of loosing the job she had just recently secured after a long time of being an applicant.

Her feelings for her precious little baby girl was evident In her voice when she said "Ma'am Maltina is a jolly little girl who loves playing and..."

"Don't worry my dear", Grandma said in a soothing voice she understood the anxiety of the young mother. So she added, "Some children behave like this on their first day at school, even some of them weeks to adjust to the school system." With a disarming, confident and an assuring smile, she went further, "Maltina will soon get used to us, so you need not to worry yourself unduly."

"Thank you, ma," Mrs Johnson was grateful for the encouragement words of the old woman.

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