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BRISBANE CIRLS' GRAMMAR SCHOOL MAGAZINE.

November, 1920.

to the fact that they get out ten minutes earlier than usual. Examinations begin soon, and we shall all have to work hard. Though we can not all be top, each must do her best. III. D. Our classroom is the art room, which is a very cool and pleasant portion of the school. We are often worried during roll call (our form mistress, too) by girls.coming in for maps and asking where they are. But this counts nothin'g. If they are new girls we find the maps for them, because It is our duty as a whole to help them. This year we are making an jutlit for the Serbian children. Our captain, Kathleen Grimes, asked for subscriptions, and as she got quite a large sum of money we were able to make a good beginning. We have made i little English dress which, in our minds we do think that they will like, as it is so cold in that part of Europe. Some contributors knitted a cap, a singlet, and a pair of socks. We have still to finish another singlet. a petticoat. and a Serbian style of dress, so, although we do not shine in lessons very much, we can help other people who are weaker than ourselves. II. A. Our form consists of thirteen girls, who are all sizes and ages. We have tennis every Tuesday and I think we are beginning to improve in our play- ing. We played a match against III. B. but were beaten, so we played it all over again and were again btaten, but did very much better than the first time. Every Friday we have stories read to us about all the goddesses, and we all enjoy them immensely. We have a great number of our lessons on the verandah which is ever so mu'h cooler than our class room. Swimming has begun again, and most of the girls In our class go; we always look Torward to Tuesday, for that is the day on which we have It.

III. C. Is III. C. good at Basket Ball? Rather! We won three successive matches, and were only beaten after a hard-fought game. We are not so brilliant at Tennis or Swimming, however, but are looking forward with much interest to the Gym. competition, when we hope our Gym. "snag" will uphold her repu- tation. Concerning our intellectual powers, how- ever, we are afraid it Is a case of "Little girls all have lost their brains, And don't know where to find them." But we all hope they will reappear during exam. time. We can boast of four boarders whom we could not very well do without. One of them (Olga by name) is in the "B" Basket Hall team. The form is sorry to lose two of its worthy members, Vera and Nellie, and we all wish Nellie good luck in her coming exam. Altogether we are a very happy form. All day long we sit and study while library booki, so near and yet so far, smile pityingly from their shelves. Our room is a very useful passage way. This has its advantages, but also its disadvantages, for it really is won- derful how our flowers sometimes vanish quite mysteriously. I think S .rlock Holmes would admire the :,ay we trace them. But then at other tlimrs when cetain little girls are exer- cising th dlr rather weak (?) voices, a mistres:; passes ttirough and, lo! all is silent. But time is sIt rt, so we will conclude these h tppy annals, wishing everybody a "Merry C(hrist- mas." III. C. Oh. dear! how the time files, and here it Is nearly the end of the year. Well, there is on , thing to be glad about, even if exams. are near- -holidays come soon after. This term Lower III. C. has not been very lucky as far as sports are concerned. In Basket Ball we were beaten, the result on our side being anything but brilliant, and in Tennis we were again beaten by IV. A. Still the Gymnasium competition has not yet been held perhaps we shall be beaten; but let us hope for the best.

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