For the School Colours

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By ANGELA BRAZIL
Angela Brazil has proved her undoubted talent for writing a story of schoolgirls for other schoolgirls to read. — Bookman.
LONDON: BLACKIE & SON, Ltd., 50 OLD BAILEY, E.C.

WHAT'S THIS? WHAT HAVE THEY SENT ME? SHE GASPED
FOR THE SCHOOL COLOURS BY ANGELA BRAZIL Author of A Patriotic Schoolgirl The Luckiest Girl in the School The Madcap of the School &c. &c. Illustrated by Balliol Salmon BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED LONDON GLASGOW AND BOMBAY
Printed and bound in Great Britain
It's the limit! exploded Laura.
An atrocious shame! agreed Janet.
Gives me nerve shock! mourned Ethelberga gloomily.
You see, continued Laura, popping the tray of her box on to the floor and sitting down on her bed, so as the better to address her audience— you see, it's been plumped upon us without any warning. Miss Thompson must have arranged it long ago, but she never let out so much as a teeny-weeny hint. If I'd known before I came back I'd have asked Father to give a term's notice and let me leave at Christmas. Crystal clear, I would.