of the sweet crocodile?
It lives in the mud on the banks of the Nile.
'Neath the tropical sunshine it sits with a smile,
And feeds on the niggers who live by the Nile.
Oh, the sweet crocodile! The sweet crocodile!
It lives in the mud on the banks of the Nile.

But if you must live in this cold British isle,
It's not often you'll meet with the sweet crocodile.
The specimens here are as far as they're few,
And we treasure them carefully up in the Zoo.
Oh, the sweet crocodile! The sweet crocodile!
It doesn't thrive well in this cold British isle.

Yet if about Morton you'll walk for a mile,
You may see an uncommonly sweet crocodile.
It looks very neat, with its trim little feet,
And the people all smile when the creature they meet.
Oh, the sweet crocodile! The sweet crocodile!
It walks about Morton for many a mile.

But if you'll examine this sweet crocodile,
You'll see it's composed all of girls in a file.
And there's one, who's called Patty, with such a sweet smile,
That the people all rave on this sweet crocodile.
Oh! this Patty of mine, with the extra sweet smile,
She's a gem in the tail of the sweet crocodile.

This proved by far the most popular of all the contributions to Patty's
album, and as numerous girls from other classes asked to look at the
crocodile picture, the book was in danger of too much wear and tear, and
at Miss Harper's suggestion it was placed temporarily in the school
museum, so that everybody might have a chance of seeing it, yet it
should be safe from careless hands. Enid was, of course, asked after
this to compose so many poems for so many various albums, that had she
consented her collected effusions might have filled a volume; but she
steadfastly declined.

"I made this up specially for Patty, and on purpose to try and make her
album a little different from anybody else's," she declared. "If I wrote
verses and drew pictures for you all, there'd be nothing particularly
out of the common about this. I don't intend to do a single thing for
one of you, so please don't ask me again, for I shall only go on saying
'No'."

CHAPTER VII

Patty's Pledge

November days found Patty thoroughly settled down at The Priory, and
quite accustomed to all the rules and regulations which obtained there.
On the whole she was happy, but there were still a few difficulties with
which she had to contend. L