The lot, as it happened, fell on one of the younger girls, who was overwhelmed with shyness and could only with great urging be persuaded to recite a short piece of poetry.

By the law of the Stunt everybody was obliged to perform if called upon, so Aveline fired off her sixteen lines of Longfellow with breathless speed, and fled back joyfully to the ranks of the Juniors.

Two piano solos and a step-dance followed, then the turn came to Doris Deane, a member of the Upper Fifth.

Doris's speciality was acting, so she promptly begged for two assistants, and chose from IV B a couple of junior members who had practised with her before.

Taking Nellie and Trissie for "Asia" and "Australia", she gave the scene from _Mrs.Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch_ where that delightful but haphazard heroine gets herself and the children ready to go to the opera.