OUR NEXT STORY COMPETITION.
STORIES IN MINIATURE.
Subject:—“The G. O. P. Supplement for March.”
THE DEAF GIRL NEXT DOOR.
By HELEN MARION BURNSIDE (A Deaf Writer), Author of “Her Highland Laddie,” etc.
We offer three prizes of Two Guineas, One Guinea, and Half-a-Guinea for the three best papers on our “Story Supplement” for this month. The essays are to give a brief account of the plot and action of the story in the Competitor’s own words; in fact, each paper should be a carefully-constructed Story in Miniature, telling the reader in a few bright words what The Girl’s Own Story Supplement for the month is all about.
One page of foolscap only is to be written upon, and is to be signed by the writer, followed by her full address, and posted to The Editor, Girl’s Own Paper, in an unsealed envelope, with the words “Stories in Miniature” written on the left-hand top corner.
The last day for receiving the papers is March 20th; and no papers can in any case be returned.
Examiners:—The Author of the Story (Helen Marion Burnside), and the Editor of The Girl’s Own Paper.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Fact.
[2] In those days the press-gang was still in force.
[3] At the end of a letter recently received from the Countess occur these words: “Let me congratulate you on the continued success of The Girl’s Own Paper, and the position you have made for it. I still hope to be able to rank among its contributors some day again, and I shall not either forget those early days when all was uncertainty as to how it would succeed.
“Believe me,
“Yours sincerely,
“Ishbel Aberdeen.”
[Transcriber’s note—the following changes have been made to this text:
Page 350: artifical to artifical—“artificial flowers”.]