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"You will go to the girls' lobby," said the schooleniality, purely official

and doirl teacher,

in the porch On the asphalt yard the rain was falling A

toneless bell tang-tang-tanged drearily overhead, monotonously,

insistently It ca at the other gate of the school yard,

blowing shrill blasts on a whistle and looking down the rainy,

dreary street

Boys in gangs and strea past the

master and with a loud clatter of feet and voices, over the yard

to the boys' porch Girls were running and walking through the

other entrance

In the porch where Ursula stood there was a great noise of

girls, ere tearing off their coats and hats, and hanging

thes There was a sled hair, a noise of voices

and feet

The rew

steadier, the scholars tended to fall into little noisy gangs in

the porch Then Violet Harby clapped her hands, clapped theirls, quiet!"

There was a pause The hubbub died down but did not

cease

"What did I say?" cried Miss Harby, shrilly

There was alirl, rather

late, whirled into the porch and flung off her things

"Leaders--in place," coirls in pinafores and long hair stood separate in