Introduction of a headmaster:
when Mother and Totto-chan was very happy . The man in the office got uo from his chair. His hair was thin on top and he had a few teeth missing , but his face was a healthy colour. Although he wasn’t very tall ,he had solid shoulders and arms and was neatly dressed in a rather shabby black three-piece suit.
The headmaster drew over a chair and put it facing Totto-chan,and when they were both sitting down close together, he said,”Now then, tell me all about yourself . Tell me anyting at all you want to talk about.
Duties of a headmaster :anything I like ,Totto-chan had expected him to ask questions she would have to answer. Wher he said she could talk about anything she wanted,She was so happy she began straight away . However It was all a bit higglgdy-piggledy, but she talked for all she was worth. She told the headmaster how fast the train went that they had come on; about their brown dog, Rocky , who could do all sort of tricks;
Importance of a Headmaster :how she used to go snip-snip with the scissors inside her mouth at kindergarten and the teacher said she mustn’t do that because she might cut her tongue off, but she did it anyway. Moreover ,how she always blew her nose because mother scolded her if it was runny ; what a good swimmer Daddy was, and how and how could dive as well . She went on and on the hadmester would lough, not and say, Howeverm, Totto-chan was happy . She kept right on tal;king. But finally she out of things to say. She sat with her mouth closed tying head to think of something.
“Haven’t you anything more you can tell me ? asked headmaster.
What a shame to stop now, Totto-chan thought. It was such a wonderful chance. Wasn’t there anything else she could talk about ,she wondered, racking her brains? Then she had an idea.
Importance of a headmaster in School :
She could tell him about the dress she was wearing that day. Moter made most of her dresses,but this one came from a shop . Her clothes were always torn when she came home in the late afternoon . Therefore Some of the rips were quite bad. Mother never knew how they got that way .Even her white cotton panties were sometimes in shreds.
She explained to the headmaster that they got torn when she crossed other people’s gardens by crawling under their fences , and when she burrowed under the barbed wire around vacant lots. So this morning, she said ,when she was getting dressed wire to come here, all Mother made the dress were torn so she was getting dressed to come here, It had small dark red and gray chechs and was made of jersey, and it wasn’t bad, but Mother thought the red flowers embroidered on the collar were in bad taste. Mother doesn’t like the collar, said Totto-chan , holding it up for the headmaster to see.
After that ,she could think of nothing more to say no matter how hard she tried. It made her rather sad. But just theb the headmaster got up, placed his laege, Finally,the headmaster accepted her head,and said.”Well now you’re a pupil of this school.”Those were his very words. And at that moment Totto-ghan felt she had met someone she really liked for the very first time in her life .
Conclusion :You see ,up till then ,no one had ever listened to her for so long. And all that time the headmaster hadn’t yawned once or looked bored, but seemed just as interested in what she had had to say as she was.The headmaster, however, made her feel safe and warm and happy. She wanted to stay with him forever.
