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ally. The members were sucking blissfully while Lorraine went round and collected the literary portion of the entertainment. "Only eight papers to-day! You slackers! Audrey, where's yours? Haven't had time to think of anything? How weak! Doreen, I expected the Fifth to do its duty. Thanks, Phoebe, I'm glad you've written something, and you too, Beryl." "Please keep mine till the _very_ last, and don't read it at all if there isn't much time!" implored Phoebe. "You mustn't read mine first!" fluttered Dorothy. "Nor mine!" "Nor mine!" "Look here! Somebody has got to come first! I shall do it by lot; I'll write your names on slips of paper and shuffle them. Lend me a pencil, Patsie. There! I'll stir them round, and Audrey shall draw one." Audrey picked out at random one of the little twisted scraps of paper, and the lot fell upon the protesting Dorothy. She rose apologetically. "They're not much," she murmured. "Just a few 'Ruthless Rhymes', that's all. Anna Maria Fell into the fire, She was burnt to a cinder. Pa said: 'Let's open winder!' In a river in the city Jack was drowned And never found. Mother said it was a pity His new boots went down with him. They'd have fitted Brother Jim. A bomb dropped on to the house and blew Beds, tables and chairs to Timbuctoo. 'Dear, dear how annoying!' murmured Aunt May, 'We'd spring-cleaned the place only yesterday!' Poor little Johnnie, he swallowed his rattle, It stuck in his throat and he gave up life's battle; They couldn't get Johnnie to 'ope eyes and peep' But they shook up the rattle and sold it off cheap." The next on the list was Lorraine's own contribution. DIARY OF A GIRL IN THE YEAR A.D. 4000 To-day I used my new air wings, and flew up the Thames valley to see the remains of ancient London, recently excavated. It is an extraordinary sight, and certainly seems to throw some light upon the manners and customs of that quaint old nation, the English of two thousand years ago. In the museum are some weird specimens of public conveyances, notably a thing called a "tramcar" in which all sorts and conditions of people sat squeezed up side by side, and were whirled along the street, instead of the street moving as it does now, to convey passengers without any trouble. There were also machines called bicycles, consisting of
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