The Madcap of the School

Form T

nge. She was clever, conscientious, and well-meaning, and preserved a high

ntine one day. "If we followed all Gibbie's pet

xpect it would hurt like cutting teeth, and it would spoil the fit of one's blou

ities!" sighed Fauvette. "One never ge

keen-witted, self-sacrificing, logical, anxious for the development of their sex, yearning for careers, in fact the vanguard of a new womanhood. Unfortunately her material was not altogether promising. A few earnest spirits, such as Maudie Heywood, responded to her appeals, but the generality were slow to move. They listened to her impassioned addresses on women's suffrage without a spark of animatio

mer-house, and suggested suitable employments for their idle hands and brains. "Never waste a precious minute" was her motto, and the girls groaned under it. Healthy hobbies were all very well, but to be urged to ride them in season 61 and out of season was distinctly trying. One well-meant effort on Miss Gibbs's part met with particular disapproval. She had decided to take the girls on Saturday afternoons to visit various old castles, Roman camps, and other objects of historical and arch?ological

was an outburst of almost m

"There's not a moment to spare in prep., so I suppose it will have to co

ancient earthworks? If they were modern trenches, now, with soldiers in them, it would be something like! There'll be nothing to see

ople from an arch?ological society to meet us there, and probably one of them will do the spouting-some whe

ve to talk to them, and she won't have so much time to look after us. She

u've got to li

look serious and politely absorb

hese wretched notes to c

opy; we'll borrow hers, and just skim them over to get a kind of general acquaintance with the subject, su

asks beforehand t

the first page, and stick some old exerci

ge only of the notes, placing underneath some portions of Latin translation or historical essay. Aveline underlined her title with red ink, Morvyth ruled a neat 63 margin, and Fauvett

ntion. They complained that she tried all her educational experiments upon them. They were ready, however, the whole ten of them, on Saturday afternoon, clad in the neat school uniform, brown serge skirt, khaki blouse, scarlet tie, and burnt-straw hat. Miss Gibbs viewed them with approv

ere grazing. The members of the Arch?ological Society had already arrived, and came forward to greet Miss Gibbs. There was a large stout gentleman, with a grey moustache and bushy overhanging eyebrows; also a little thin gentleman with a pointed beard and

iss Gibbs, introducing the Form en b

red some suitable remark about the value of a

my short paper before we in

disinter any dead Romans to sho

e. "Nothing as thrilling

er. They arranged themselves in a respectful semicircle, with attentive eye

andering upon more modern themes. Morvyth was speculating whether it would be possible to purchase chocolates on the way home

hould like to have Miss Gibbs's opinion as to the 65 exact position of the entrance and the a

bbs. "Perhaps you would not mind reading the paragr

who a moment before had been at his elbow, had strayed

f the notes. Pass yours, Ar

blushed scarlet, bu

fessor fumbled with the pages. "May I find it for you? Why, surely the

opy. It is unwise for a mistress to show temper before visitors, and Miss Gibbs, with admirable self-control, mastered her feelings and read the paragraph calmly. During the discussion which followed, the girls availed themselves of an invitation from the short-sighted gentleman to inspect the earthworks, and thankfully fled

end time in attempting to give you intellectual interests. Those girls who did not copy

ymonde to Ardiune. "Tennis is off to-night. Straf