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Title: Just Gerry

Author: Christine Chaundler

Release Date: July 27, 2010 [EBook #33270]

Language: English

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JUST GERRY

BY

CHRISTINE CHAUNDLER

LONDON

NISBET & CO. LTD.

22 BERNERS STREET, W.1

1920

PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY MORRISON AND GIBB LIMITED, EDINBURGH

_BY THE SAME AUTHOR_

The Fourth Form Detectives
A Fourth Form Rebel
The Reputation of the Upper Fourth
The Reformation of Dormitory Five
Jan of the Fourth
The Thirteenth Orphan
Snuffles for Short

CONTENTS

CHAP.

I. CUBICLE THIRTEEN
II. AN INTRODUCTION
III. THE WAYS OF WAKEHURST PRIORY
IV. AN INCIDENT IN THE DARK
V. A CARICATURE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
VI. THE GERMAN LESSON
VII. GERALDINE MAKES A FRIEND
VIII. MAINLY CONCERNING A MOUSE
IX. AN INTERVIEW WITH THE HEAD GIRL
X. THE DORMITORY MATCH
XI. A LESSON IN HOCKEY
XII. THE NEW FORM-MISTRESS
XIII. A BREAK IN THE CLOUDS
XIV. CHESTNUTS
XV. THE LOWER FIFTH IS MUTE
XVI. A GREAT DECISION
XVII. INTO THE LION'S MOUTH
XVIII. THE END OF THE STRIKE
XIX. THE LITTLE BLACK DOG
XX. AN AFTERNOON AT GYM
XXI. HECTOR OR PARIS?
XXII. THE DORMITORY FINAL
XXIII. THE PLUCK OF GERMAN GERRY
XXIV. THE LOWER FIFTH MAKES AMENDS
XXV. CLOUDS ARE ROLLED AWAY

JUST GERRY

CHAPTER I

CUBICLE THIRTEEN

The new girl sat on the edge of her bed, and gazed round at the small
domain which for the next three months would be the one spot in this
strange new world of school that she could call her own.

It was really quite a nice cubicle, some eight feet wide by ten feet
long--just large enough to contain a small white-counterpaned bed, a
dressing-table and chest of drawers combined, a small washhand stand, a
big wooden locker, and one chintz-covered arm-chair drawn up below the
broad sill o