A few years ago she introduced the old English Folk Songs and Morris Dances into the school.

The children took to them at once as ducklings take to the water; and within a year they were able to give an admirably successful performance of some two dozen songs and dances in the village hall.

Some of these had been rehearsed only once; but the children, thanks to their having been systematically trained to educate themselves, are so versatile and resourceful that every item on their programme was a complete success.

The Folk Songs and Morris Dances are still the delight of the children.

They are ever adding to their repertory of songs; and when they go into the playground for recreation, they at once form into small groups for Morris Dancing, the older children taking the little ones in hand, and initiating them into the pleasures of rhythmical movement.
There is another way in which Egeria brings music into the lives of the children.