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Miss Brown looked severe . `` You understand this means thirty minutes after school . I have told you I will not tolerate tardiness . '' Chicken Little did n't try to catch up with Katy and Gertie going home that noon . She plodded along soberly by herself with such a forlorn air that Dick Harding , just behind her on his way to his own lunch , was struck by it , and overtook her to find out what was amiss now . `` Have to stay after school on a birthday -- well , that is tough . I see plainly you need the services of a lawyer .