An Entertainment was added, comprising those merciless tests of human endurance called Recitations; light refreshments and musical performances being distributed at intervals, to encourage the exhausted audience.

The local newspaper sent a reporter to describe the proceedings, and some of Miss Ladd's young ladies enjoyed the intoxicating luxury of seeing their names in print.
"It begins at three o'clock," the housemaid went on, "and, what with practicing and rehearsing, and ornamenting the schoolroom, there's a hubbub fit to make a person's head spin.

Besides which," said the girl, lowering her voice, and approaching a little nearer to Francine, "we have all been taken by surprise.

The first thing in the morning Miss Jethro left us, without saying good-by to anybody." "Who is Miss Jethro ?" "The new teacher, miss.

We none of us liked her, and we all suspect there's something wrong.