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Before they got clear up to the kindergarten , though , they met Miss Gilbert , who was coming in search of the little visitor . `` Betty missed her , '' she explained , `` but I thought you 'd find her , Tom . '' With a thank you to her janitor friend , Mary Jane took tight hold of the teacher 's hand and they went into the kindergarten room together . After that , the morning went very quickly and happily and Mary Jane could hardly believe her ears when the big whistles began to blow for twelve o'clock and Miss Gilbert told them to put away their scissors and cut-out papers and get ready to go home . Mary Jane had cut out two beautiful tulips and she was very happy when she was told they might be taken home as a souvenir of her visit . On the way home they met Frances and Alice and Ed so they had plenty of company . `` What you doing Saturday ? ''