I could play the air very softly on the mandoline, and we'd both sing it.

That won't give you any extra trouble." "It isn't the trouble so much as the state of my fingers.

They're getting sore.

If I let a blister come, I shan't be able to play at all." "Then for goodness' sake don't play any more to-day, and soak your fingers in alum when you get home." The general meeting on Tuesday was a very important event, for it marked the opening of the winter session of games and guilds.

During the first week or ten days of the autumn term the girls had enough to do in settling into the work of their new forms, but now October was come everybody began to think about hockey, and to consider the advisability of beginning rehearsals for various Christmas performances.
"I always hate the end of September," proclaimed Grace Olliver.