FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   126   127   128   129   130   131   132   133   134   135   136   137   138   139   140   141   142   143   144   145   146   147   148   149   150  
151   152   153   154   155   156   157   158   159   160   161   162   163   >>  
others. I shall make a point of sitting upon her hard for the rest of the term." "Solomon said in accents mild, 'Spare the rod and spoil the child; Be they man, or be they maid, Whack them, and wollop them,' Solomon said!" quoted Patsie, choking over her last piece of chocolate. CHAPTER XVIII An Adventure To give Madame Bertier her dues, it was she who suggested the wild-flower ramble upon the cliffs. It was for seniors only, and it had the immense advantage, in schoolgirl eyes, that it was held upon a Thursday afternoon; Madame had urged Thursday and stuck to the point. "It was real sporty of her," chortled Patsie. "Miss Kingsley or Miss Janet always try to fix up rambles or things of that kind for Saturdays, and then it's taking away a holiday instead of giving us one. We've all generally got something on at home for Saturday afternoons, and though, of course, we like rambles all right, it isn't quite good enough to have to throw up our home engagements for them. Three cheers for Madame!" "Bless her!" murmured Audrey, ecstatically. "We shall miss French on Thursday afternoon and I hadn't done a single line of my exercise or learnt my poetry. It's moved a weight from my mind." "Don't congratulate yourself too soon, old sport! She'll probably tell us to give in the exercises." "Well, she can't hear the poetry at any rate." "Unless she makes us say it on the cliffs!" "Oh, surely there won't be time for that?" "Um--I don't know! Never trust a teacher to give one a _real_ holiday! Miss Janet always tries to 'combine instruction with amusement', as the old-fashioned children's books used to put it. Madame will probably try to teach us the French names of the flowers at any rate." "Perhaps she doesn't know them!" said Audrey hopefully. There were eighteen seniors in the school, and on the Thursday in question they were all ready by half-past two, armed with baskets or tin cases in which to put their flowers. Their exodus was watched with envy by the juniors, who had appealed in vain to be allowed to join the excursion. "Eighteen are quite a big enough party to keep together," decreed Miss Kingsley, "and you juniors had an aquarium expedition only last week." "But that was on a Saturday!" objected a valiant spirit, anxious to obtain a Thursday holiday. Miss Kingsley, however, couldn't or wouldn't see the point, and withered the speaker with an extra-scholastic
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   126   127   128   129   130   131   132   133   134   135   136   137   138   139   140   141   142   143   144   145   146   147   148   149   150  
151   152   153   154   155   156   157   158   159   160   161   162   163   >>  



Top keywords:
Thursday
 

Madame

 

Kingsley

 

holiday

 

afternoon

 
poetry
 
Audrey
 

French

 
flowers
 

rambles


Saturday

 

juniors

 
Patsie
 

Solomon

 
cliffs
 

seniors

 
couldn
 
combine
 

teacher

 

instruction


fashioned

 

anxious

 

spirit

 

obtain

 

children

 

amusement

 

Unless

 

scholastic

 

exercises

 

withered


surely

 
speaker
 

wouldn

 

allowed

 

baskets

 
excursion
 

Eighteen

 
exodus
 

watched

 
appealed

Perhaps
 

aquarium

 
expedition
 
valiant
 

objected

 

question

 
decreed
 

eighteen

 
school
 

suggested