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Lottie Carr and her sister were on his side , also , and four other boys . That gave each side ten , you see . `` I 've been speaking to Miss May , '' announced Miss Davis , coming back to her room when the ten minutes was up . `` She thinks , instead of having you children go home at noon and come back for your snowball fight , that it will be better if you have lunch here and then go out to play in the snow . Miss May will telephone every child 's mother and ask permission to have you stay here , and she is going to promise that you will all be home by four o'clock . And now I want you to have the best reading lesson we have had since Christmas . '' The children liked to have luncheon in Miss May 's blue and silver dining-room .