My sister Lila was just 5 years old and such a tiny little girl when she was in the first grade. We attended school at Mt View, a little one room country school in northern Grant County Oklahoma. All eight grades had a school play just before Christmas each year. Most of our plays dealt with poems and nursery rhymes that we learned at school. To this day, I am not sure if the teacher had Lila repeat the Little Miss Muffet poem and skit out of cuteness, or whether he had a warped sense of humor. Lila was to sit on a tuffet while pretending to eat her "Curds and Whey" while she repeated the poem, "Little Miss Muffet." I do not remember what was used for the Tuffet, but I plainly remember her repeating the poem with her baby talk brogue. Now just imagine being a "widdle tid" trying to sound out her "c" letters and replacing them with a "t." Now, replace the "c" in curds with a "t" and repeat the word in the poem. I was old enough at the time to know that was not a nice word. When the night came for the school program, all of our parents and relatives attended. All of the students were dressed for their parts in costumes hand made by their mothers. The primary class was the first class to perform. Cute and innocent little Lila climbed up on her make believe Tuffet and turned to face the crowd. She looked like a little doll with her soft brown curls curling around her baby face. She started repeating her poem. It was absolutely darling, that is… until she got to the curds and whey part, but the crowd loved it and roared with laughter. Mama was mortified. Daddy found the humor and tried to muffle his chuckles, so he did not offend mama. I was very embarrassed and as well as angry at the teacher, because I heard Lila repeat the poem in rehearsal and knew that the teacher knew full well what she was going to call the curds. Lila was none the wiser and thought the laughter of the crowd was for her good performance.