The little friends all respected the nuns and their integrity. There were many stories about how several of them came from different countries and were persecuted for their beliefs. In some countries the nuns could not work or earn money if they were Catholic, so when asked what their religion was they would say “The First Church of Christ”. The nuns had integrity and were for the most part very kind to the students who sometimes pushed the envelope.
St. Albert the Great wanted to prepare its students for high school when they reached the 7th and 8th grades and one way to do this was to have them get used to going to another room for a class. Up until now everything was pretty much taught to the little friends in one room, but now they would actually leave that room and walk to another room for a class. This was the case with history which was taught by a very friendly nun. As the little friends entered the room there would be a stack of history books there and each student would take a book to use for that day, then return the book when the class was finished. This meant that you could not take the book home and that you would most likely have a different book each day in history class.
Since all the books were the same you really should not be able to notice a difference, but when the little friends opened those books they found that they were not all the same. The captions of all the pictures in the book had been re-written with some of the most inappropriate text you can imagine. Most cannot even be written in the fine pages of this book – for example there was a picture of a pioneer family living in a log cabin. The mother was knitting in a chair, the father was entering from the door with a rifle and some rabbits he had shot for food, and in the corner was a baby in a basinet. Drawn into this picture with a pen were speech bubbles, one for each character. The speech bubble for the mother said “I’m pregnant”, the speech bubble for the father said “who did it” and the speech bubble for the baby said “I did”. Each history book had tons of these “captions” in them and most of the history books were somewhat different and may have slightly or totally different captions written in. Each day the little friends would get a book and anxiously open it up to read these “captions” and needless to say history became the little friends favorite subject. Since each book was different, the little friends could enjoy different depravities each day.
Most of the text was already written in the books when the little friends got to 7th grade and they simply thought of the history books as a perk of being a 7th grader. These funny yet inappropriate captions had been handed down by who knows how many previous 7th grade classes so they were treated with reverence by the little friends. The little friends rarely added to these since there were so many captions in them already that there was hardly room for more. However, if there was an opening they would fill in the captions as part of their 7th grade duties, which would eventually lead to their demise. The history books were discovered (which shocked no one). The most inappropriate books ever written on earth had been on display in this history class for who knows how many years and the only real question was why did it take so long for this to be discovered.
The students from this class who did get caught writing in these books had to erase the text on all the history books, even those that were already written on when they got to 7th grade.
