MISQUAH — Fall story time resumed at the Misquah Public Library on Sunday morning with twenty-two children on the rug, which is six more than last fall and which Megan Tollefson attributes to the summer reading class of forty-one having gotten in the habit.

Two adult volunteers were needed and three came. The third has been told she is now the substitute and has accepted.

Ruth Aune is at the library Tuesdays and Fridays. She is not running it; Tollefson is, and Mrs. Aune has told four separate people that this arrangement is not temporary and has told two of them twice. She shelves, she answers the telephone, and on Fridays she is generally somewhere near the children’s corner without appearing to have arranged to be.

The animal ladder now has a loon above the eagle, drawn in green ink on August 28 in front of forty-one children, and it has been looked at a great deal by people who were not there.

The winter reading program, which historically starts the first week of December, has now been asked about twelve times since August. Mrs. Aune has answered the same way each time, which is that it will happen. Asked Friday whether there would be a new tier, she said that a person who has just been given a loon should be patient.

Tollefson has also begun the thing she says she has wanted since June, which is a Saturday-morning hour for the middle grades — fourth through sixth, no program, no craft, just the room open and quiet with somebody in it. Four came the first week. She says four is what she expected and that she will run it through the winter regardless of whether it ever becomes eight.