From 8-year old Hilda’s diary:

I forgot to say that we went back to school yesterday, and we did something that was a lot of fun. Miss Cashen, our new teacher, showed us a picture of a little house in the snow and then each of us had to write a composition about it, and we were allowed fifteen minutes to do it. Whoever writes the best composition gets a prize. We won’t get the prize until tomorrow because Miss Cashen has to read all the papers first.