And it's your business to
teach the younger ones. I saw Doreen and Elsbeth playing cricket with
Joyce to-day in a way that absolutely made me shudder. She should show
them how to hold their bats, and never allow leg-before-wicket even with
the veriest kid. It's no use letting them start bad habits, is it? My
suggestion is that you form yourselves into a club; let the elder ones be
officers, and give efficiency badges for certain things. You've so much
more time than we seniors have, that you ought to get on like a house on
fire. You'd be laying the foundations of some very good work later on. I
should call you the 'Pioneers,' because you'd be starting on a new
venture to spread the fame of 'The Moorings.' What d'you think about it?"
The idea decidedly appealed to the juniors. It was far more flattering to
be told they were the coming strength of the school than that they were
nuisances and in the way of the older girls. Moreover, the notion of
being officers was attractive to such temperaments as Winnie's, Biddy's,
and Daisy's.
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