A Terrible Tomboy
ad many a h
gh, and lit
deserves a chapter all to herself; for she was one of the sweetest, gentlest, most unselfish of girls,
replied: 'Music.' She practised away patiently at the old piano, much to the d
ong ladies, zey have no more musique in zem zan an old hurdy-gurdy. All zat vill please ze
e very home and abode of the spirit of music, and made her sadly envious with accounts of the wonderful concerts and operas which
ardens; but she bravely hid her longings for better things, for she knew that a musical education would be an utter impossibility in the family circ
delight when she got the Rose Parlour all to herself, often composing little things of he
ere were great preparations at the Abbey. Rollo had been newly washed and combed, the rabbits' hutch had been scrubbed, the arbour
urmounted the gate, could command a view of the distant prospect
k ribbon round the neck of the pet lamb, whose toi
e it's Evelyn Proctor, and the two in the blue hats will be Susie and Mary. Oh, it is r
om his point of vantage, so as no
maginable, and that winning manner which seems specially to belong to the children of the Emerald Isle. Susie and Mary Hirst were the daughters of a rising Warford physician, and were p
with envious eye the row of bright machines neatly stacked agai
ly giving him a ride round the carriage sweep. 'But, you see
complained Bobby, determ
hool in the pouring rain or snow. It's no
ried Lilian; 'I have s
he garden, farmyard, and ruins. They duly admired the pet lamb, laughed at Jack, stroked the rabbits, declared Rollo to be a bl
and Aunt Helen enjoyed schoolgirls' society almost as much as the child
were emptied for the last time, and 'No, thank you's' be
grown-up among so many elder girls, and
le boys in here,' s
h the keyhole. 'I don't want to play with a lot of
andered round the room examining the maps and various specimens of art which adorned the walls. Doro
ile of old music inside the ottoman, and fishi
otly. 'Let me have that, Mary, please
girls, whose curiosity was natur
re, Peg!'
urned tell-tale, and
's made up herself,'
. 'I couldn't write a note of
u must!' echo
and pressed on to the music-stool, where, with many prote
PICCAN
the music-
the music-
Georgia where
es want to suck d
nd an' peepin', like
ring his stick an'
or
ccaninnies mus
ttle piccaninnie
in' you, de me
iccaninnies, '
e am blazin', an' Aunt
gather just to smell
nd de window like d
he get mad, an' tur
! piccanin
a-drivin' in de c
run behind to shou
come up, and use
s neber meant to h
! piccanin
admiring girls. 'Did yo
's talents. 'She has made lots of others, too. Lil, do let m
quite enough for one day. It's somebody
of scales or five-finger exercises, and none of the others could remember
the glass,' said Susie. 'What a cherub he looks,
the French window and admit the smiling Bobby, who entered with an expressi
' he said winningly, handing a noble box t
m!' murmured the girls as they colle
eetmeats she had expected lay a writhing mass of fat green caterpillars, newly picked from
ejoicing offender, who was off through the window and over the wall
et out the fire-shovel, Peggy mavourneen, and we'll be after sweeping them
uxuriously into the basket-chair, when the contents
few pages from an exercise-book, and hunting out a supply of
a young l
s she rode o
home from
e lady
on the face
y are folded up and shuffled, and everybody draws one, and you must write a nonsense rhyme about th
cult,' sighed Lucy. 'I'm no
gy, dealing out the pencils. 'It's
pencils in all the agonies of composition. When everyone had finished the slips were folded up and placed in a basket, and Lilian, who ha
was a French
he knew Engli
meant "I
d "I am
s all laugh,
selle's mistakes in English wer
that!' said Susie, w
, my dear,' answered Evel
r was headed
wild schoolgi
he bad pupil
started
Cambridg
e's surprise, c
,' laughed Mary, who was study
r,' said Lilian, unfolding ano
a young lad
ribly stron
e boys
set her
o not name
en, 'for you said the writing was hard to make ou
, but I shan't tell,' repl
er was describ
n old German
irator wor
weather
temper
he were muzzl
us for his bronchitis and his bad temper, and the general opinion ascribe
id Lilian, 'is
ived a maid n
a boat-rac
brought
red, she
l colour i
s to witness a grand boat-race between the Grammar School and a rival college from Oswestry. Many of the girls had brothers in the contest, and the Warford favours were freely distributed o
young Irishwoman. 'It's the shade of the tyrant, bad cess to it! and don't suit me co
s the subject o
ere was calle
omineering
assed by t
irls made
found out, a
e rhyme with James
,' began poor Lucy, then stopped in much
edly; 'I like it one of the best. Don't you
named Do
r eat anyt
biscuit
ank you,"
r cakes she
d if I discover the authorship, I'll bring an action
rt was on the
young fello
that name I
o know
puppy
why I take
dn't belong to anyone else. Well done, Peggy! You wil
that, if Warford were to be reached before darkness had fallen, it was getting time for the six bicycles to be set in motion. So there was a grand collecting of hats and gloves, and pumping of tyres, and ma