When Anne continued to talk during lessons, unable to sit still or be quiet, and had been warned countless times to stop talking, her teacher required that she write an essay titled “A Chatterbox.” How unlike her sister she was, for Margot’s work was always brilliant, with excellent grades, and she never had to be reprimanded, whereas Anne kept talking. A day later, she was asked to write a second essay, which he titled “An Incorrigible Chatterbox.” When she still had not stopped talking to her friends, she was assigned to write a third, called “Quack, Quack, Quack, Said Mistress Chatterback.”
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