The Leader of the Lower School

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girls recognized that the revolution was entirely owed to her suggestion, and they were ready to acknowledge her as their leader. She took her honours modestly. Having accomplished what she had aimed at, she was quite ready to retire from the position of dictator until some other good cause needed a champion. A

er, and it's awkward to have to vote the funds of the Photographic Society over to the Dramatic, or vice versa. I think we should manage

Gipsy!" agr

like Oliver Cromwell waved awa

o. I suggest Dilys Fenton. She's the oldest girl in the Upper Fourth, and from what I hear she's been here one of the longest. I'll serve on the Committee, if you like, and be of an

who understood the school ways. They appreciated the motive of her refusal, however; and her generosity in thus stan

nutes of the meetings, and all those sorts of bus

in, and add things up as cents and dollars, i

l you up if you

ften indulged in by schoolgirls. She brought offerings of late roses or autumn violets from home, and followed her idol about the school like a love-sick swain. She would sit gazing at Gipsy during classes in deepest admiration, and was ready to accept her every idea as gospel. Meg was rather a curious, abrupt gi

ghed Norah Bell. "I believe if she declared the tre

ver your heart?" enquired D

pshot you got of her,"

e seriously. "I'm going to have a new camera for my birthday, then I'll tr

e-lorn eyes!" gi

e copies Gipsy slavishly, even to doing her hair the same, and those two big

just like enough to be a kind of

the very word. She's absolute

evoted ally, for there were a few malcontents in the Form who were not at all ready to accept her with enthusiasm. Maude Helm had taken a dislike to her from the first, and had allowed her prejudice not only to blind her to Gipsy's good points, but to cause her to try to influence others in her disfavour. It is rarely that anybody succeed

her particular chums. "I vote we stick out, at any rate, and don't let her have

out we're not all ready to lick h

an. "If she puts up for anything else I shall oppose her. There are other people in

ry Parsons, who happened to overhear. "You for

er best!" sneered Gladys. "She evide

you can't do Gipsy much harm by y

more," broke out Joyce Adamson, who

walked away, "I believe those three would

could

itresses after this Guild business, and they'd be only too

y's hardly what you call

. She's bound to come into collision with Helen Roper sooner

ciencies with tolerable ease. In one or two subjects she was actually ahead of her Form, and in all practical matters she had a mine of past experience to draw upon. She approved of her Form mistress, Miss White,

going to the man in the moon, and telling him I felt homesick or headachy or worried about anything, as I should to her. Much she'd care! She'd tell me not to report myself till I was sent for! Now at Dorcas City Mis

ge!" giggled the boarders in who

me buy that pan. We used to have good times candy making when I was out West," said

odle! I haven't had even a chocolate drop

ould be a pity for you not to see Fudge made. I call it neglect of your educati

urged Lennie with a

may only buy sweets once a

each than in the observa

I've heard of. It's a good motto to do what you want until you're told not to. Ta ta! I'm off on a for

too big a scrape; Poppie can ma

of Poppie's clutches," returned Gipsy, as she

lys; "she's far too free and easy for this school. Did y

't mind. She takes P

far some day,"

ody ever discovered, but she returned in

k, and sugar, and even a bottle of vanilla. Can't

t was evening recreation hour, so nearly all the Junior boarders were collected

to make American Fudge, now's your chance! Positively the last opportunity! By the by, 'reckon' is

e things?" squeaked Aggie Jones,

t you!" echoed Pamela Ha

own business!" said

st of school rules, so I can't break them till I know what they are, can I? There's a law in most countries that a dog's a

Chapman, "if you'll ta

e of it afterwards!"

to help, you may measure out three cupfuls of sugar, and three-quarters of a cupful of milk. Now this tables

over. The Junior boarders all had more than a suspicion that Gipsy's cook

g to harden," said Dilys Fenton. "Last 5th of November I think we didn't bo

and then you beat it with a fork till it crea

!" begged Pa

d Fudge-making, not to stir at all while it's

t burn,

I can't guarantee it on an open fire. By good rights it ought to

ce for ordinary toffee,"

something," snif

t's bu

y! St

boilin

t off,

ate; the sugary compound rose like a volcano and overflowed in

ould!" prote

body!" shrieked Gipsy. "If we don't mind, Poppie'll

ng along the passage, and attracted by the smell of burning, she had opened the door quietly to ascerta

demanded Miss Poppleton, eyeing

"We always made Fudge in the schoolroom in Dorcas Ci

w, and learn a page of French poetry. Each of you others" (glaring at the crestfallen circle) "will copy fifty lines of Paradise Lost,

parted, having first seen the

o get into a scrape soone

ck!" wailed Daisy Scatcherd

the Fudge had just boiled over!" said Hetty. "She

all it? Poppie didn't see your privileges! You'll have the pleasure of learning a wh

arn. When folks are nice to me, I'll keep any number of rules; but when they begin to bully me, I just fee