'
"Nor the hut either!" whispered Winnie to her chum, applying the proverb
too literally. "I wish they'd seen it before the roof was on!"
"'How the creatures talk!'" quoted Joyce, from _Alice in
Wonderland_. "I'm bored to tears!"
The prize-giving part was more interesting. As the names were called,
each winner in turn walked up to the platform, received her book, bowed
more or less gracefully, and retired. The applause was a welcome relief
to the rank and file, who were tired of sitting at such exemplary
attention. It was over at last, and the visitors went to be shown round
the school and to be regaled with tea in the dining-room. Professor
Hartley, in cap and gown, had crossed the garden to the hostel, and the
pupils, some of them suffering from pins and needles, were free to
disperse. It was the breaking-up for the day-girls, and to-morrow morning
the boarders would be sent home.
"Just a word with you, Merle!" said Miss Mitchell, calling the latter
into the study by herself.
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