If anybody has a cold on the day of the event, you'll take her place." "You mascot! Shall I?
Oh! I do hope somebody'll catch cold--not badly, but just enough to make it unsafe to go into the water.

You can't think how I want to try my luck.

I don't suppose I've a chance of a prize, but if I did get one, why I'd cock-a-doodle-do the school down!" "I'm quite sure you would! Trust you to blow your own trumpet!" "Winona Woodward, if you'd been properly and thoroughly spanked in your babyhood, you'd be a much more civil person now.

I decline your company.
Ta-ta!" "Poor old Eve! Take it sporting!" said Winona soothingly.
On the afternoon of the great event, the ladies' large bath was specially reserved for the school.

A goodly crowd of spectators filled almost to overflowing the galleries that ran round the hall; interested fathers and mothers, sympathetic aunts, and a sprinkling of cousins and friends made up the visitors' list, and the rest of the space was crammed with school girls.