ion of readjusting the Management of the
various Guilds.

"'Speaker: GIPSY LATIMER.'"

"First rate!" said Lennie. "I'll help you to make some copies. We must
pin one up on the notice board of each Junior classroom, and one in the
dressing-room. It'll make a stir, and no mistake!"

"Rather!" chuckled Hetty. "Gipsy, you're an Oliver Cromwell!"

"You might add: 'Chairman, Hetty Hancock', then I guess it will do,"
said Gipsy, scanning the scrap of paper.

As Lennie had prophesied, the announcement caused a great stir
throughout the Lower School. Excited girls crowded round the notices
discussing the question, and for that day the talk was of nothing else.
Gipsy had rather taken the popular fancy; and though a few considered it
impertinence on the part of a new girl to offer any criticisms on
existing institutions, all were anxious to hear what she had to say on
so absorbing a topic. At 2 p.m. on the Wednesday, therefore, the
play-room was crowded. Juniors of all sorts and conditions were there,
from the tall girls of the Upper Fourth to giggling members of the
Third, and small fry of the First and Second, who felt themselves vastly
important at being included in the proceedings. The instigators of the
movement were determined that the meeting should be held in strict
order. They had placed a table to serve as a platform, and arranged
benches that would accommodate at least a part of the audience.

"Lennie, you make them take their seats properly," commanded Hetty; "big
ones at the back, and little ones in front: those First Form kids can
sit on the floor. Don't stand any nonsense with the Third. Now, Gipsy,
are you ready? Then we'll mount the platform."

Hetty had been studying up her duties as "Chairman", and was anxious to
do the thing in style. She had prepared her speech carefully beforehand.

"Ladies and gentlemen," she began glibly, "at least, I mean girls and
fellow members of our Junior School, my pleasant business this afternoon
is to introduce to you the speaker, Miss Gipsy Latimer. Though she is a
newcomer amongst us, I'm sure we all realize that by her wide experience
of American and Colonial schools she is particularly fitted to speak to
us on the subject in hand. She has had the opportunity of studying the
working of other Societies and Guilds, and she will no doubt be able to
offer us many valuable suggestions. I will not take up the time of the
meeting by any