As the account of such a contest is always much more interesting when narrated by an actual spectator, and as Nora wrote a long and accurate description of it afterwards to a cousin at school in London, I will insert her letter, and allow it to speak for itself.
(_This letter is an account of a real match, written by a real schoolgirl._) "Grovebury College.
"_My Dear Margaret_, "I simply must tell you about the hockey match we played last Saturday! "The team played the Clinton High School Old Girls' Association at Denscourt.

Our girls were awfully keen to meet them, and were not at all daunted by the fact that they were exceptionally strong.
"About twenty of us went as spectators, and as we were about to set off to the station with the Eleven, Rachel Grant, the Left Inner, received a telegram, conveying news of her mother's serious illness.

To our great misfortune, she was obliged to go home at once, and the first girl on the Reserve, Ingred Saxon, had to fill her place.
"Miss Giles, the Games Mistress, went on to get the tickets, and, in spite of some delay, we managed to meet her in time to catch the train.

It is ten miles from here to Denscourt, and we arrived there in about twenty minutes.
"The field is not very far from the railway station.

The team girls were taken to the pavilion, and when they were ready, the captain tossed up.