Miss Winter taught school with a cold strictness that
left her students feeling frozen with fright. She especially liked to pick on a pupil named April Spring. The teacher despised the clods of mud April unknowingly
tracked into the classroom; Miss Winter preferred piles of snow. Many times a
day she would turn a frigid face toward little April, reprimand her,
and demand a contrite response—whether she was guilty of the offense or not.
But the school board knew about all of Miss Winter’s ways and fired her, replacing the teacher with Miss Summer. Not long later, April Spring wept over the sadness this
situation must have caused Miss Winter; April decided to cheer up Miss Winter
with a gift—daffodils! Surprisingly, her former teacher burst into tears,
apologizing profusely for her past conduct. Sometimes the frosty folks in our
lives simply need to be shown the warm ways of a kind heart.
