It was Nicholas’s Maths test the next day. He was a hard-working boy but slow in everything. Nicholas took a lot of time trying to understand how the sums worked. So, he stayed up late that night. His mother said to him, “Nicholas, please sleep early tonight. Tomorrow, you need to wake up fresh. Only then will you be able to answer the test well.” But Nicholas stayed awake for a very long time. The next morning, he woke up very late and missed his school bus. He rode his bicycle to school but he was fifteen minutes late for the test. He could not answer ten questions instead of twenty. Thus, Nicholas secured only half the marks even though he knew all the answers. Nicholas’s mother said, “You need to be a little fast in doing things, dear.” From then on, Nicholas practised to write and learn fast. Thus, he was never slow or late again.
Slow Nicholas
