shall purchase yet another, and
thus it shall be in the years to come that in leisure moments I may take
down from my shelves one of my accumulated store of diaries and, opening
it at random, refresh the wearied faculties with memories of bygone
events, past trials, half-forgotten triumphs, et cetera, et cetera. In
fancy I behold myself, with the light of retrospection beaming in my
eye, glancing up from the written leaf and to myself murmuring: "Fibble,
upon such a date in the long ago you did thus and so, you visited this
or that spot of interest, you had profitable converse with such and such
a person." How inspiring the prospect; how profitable may be the outcome
of the labour required!

With this brief foreword I now put you aside, little diary, meaning to
seek your company again ere the hour of retiring has arrived. So be of
good cheer and grow not impatient through the long hours, for anon I
shall return.

Ten-forty-five P. M. of even date; to wit, April the third.--True to my
promise, here I am, pen in hand and finger at brow. It augurs well that
I should have launched this undertaking upon this particular day. For
scarce had I left my study this morning when an occurrence came to pass
which I deem to have been of more than passing interest and proper,
therefore, to be set forth in some amplitude of detail. At faculty
meeting, following chapel, our principal and president, Miss Waddleton,
announced to us that a new member had been added to our little band.
Continuing in this strain, she explained that a young person, until now
a stranger to us all, had been engaged for the position of athletic
instructor made vacant by the recent and regrettable resignation of Miss
Eleanor Scuppers. With these words she presented Miss Scuppers'
successor in the person of a Miss Hildegarde Hamm. Mutual introductions
followed.

During the ceremonial I had abundant opportunity to observe this Miss
Hamm with a polite but searching scrutiny. I cannot deny that she is
rather of a personable aspect, but, in all charity and forbearance of
final judgment, I foresee she may prove a discordant factor, a
disturbing element in our little circle. I go further than that. If I
may permit myself to indulge in language verging almost upon the
indelicate, when employed with reference to the other or gentler sex,
she has about her a certain air of hoydenish and robustious buoyancy
which, I fear me, will but ill conform to the traditions of dear