Midnight
`` Very well , then ; when a sufficient number of names are entered , I should like to spend ten dollars on a very large sand-table , which I can use with the younger group for illustrations . It is perfectly clean work , and I have helped Miss Denison and her children to do the loveliest things with it . She makes geography lessons , -- plains , hills , mountains , valleys , rivers , and lakes ; or the children make a picture of the story they have just heard . I saw them do ` Over the River and through the Wood to Grandfather 's House we go , ' ` Washington 's Winter Camp at Valley Forge , ' and ` The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere . ' I have ever so many songs chosen , and those for November and December are almost learned without my notes . I shall have to work very hard to be ready twice a week ! '' `` Too hard , I fear , '' said Mrs. Bird anxiously .