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Then she gave a furtive glance around to see if the children had noticed she was off guard ; for if they had she knew the whole crowd might take more liberties than they ought to , and have to be spoken to by the janitor . He could do a great deal with them , because he understood their attitude to life , but that was n't good for the Liberry Teacher 's record . It was four o'clock of a stickily wet Saturday . As long as it is anything from Monday to Friday the average library attendant goes around thanking her stars she is n't a school-teacher ; but the last day of the week , when the rest of the world is having its relaxing Saturday off and coming to gloat over you as it acquires its Sunday-reading best seller , if you work in a library you begin just at noon to wish devoutly that you 'd taken up scrubbing-by-the-day , or hack-driving , or porch-climbing or -- anything on earth that gave you a weekly half-holiday ! So the Liberry Teacher braced herself severely , and put on her reading-glasses with a view to looking older and more firm . `` Liberry Teacher , '' it might be well to explain , was not her official title . Her description on the pay-roll ran `` Assistant for the Children 's Department , Greenway Branch , City Public Library . ''