to wear. Mummy makes me wear what she thinks is suitable. And... I have no chums anyway. We have school here, and except for other cousins who visit occasionally I do not see any other boys. Mummy believes that I should mix with the girls so that I shall learn deportment and to behave like them. So only girls are allowed to attend our parties."

I said, "Oh, I am not making fun of you. It is too serious, especially as I see I shall have to wear the same kind of clothes. We really ought to nevolt! What could your mother do if the four of us just took off our pinnies and refused to wear them again? What could the Governess do? And by the call me Dick or Dickie; Richard is so formal and stiff!"

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Carol answered, "Oh, I couldn't call anything but Richard, Mummy does not allow us to use nicknames or abbreviations. And we daren't take off our pinnies without permission; Mummy or Martha would smack us severely, and might even get in the village schoolmaster to come and cane us!"

Babs was talking to Mabel likewise about the wearing of pinafores. So far that had been the only indignity she had had to experience, but she could realize as I did that Aunt Louise

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was terribly old-fashioned and wanted to treat u. as she treated her own children, even at our age, as little children of about the turn of the century.

What worried us was the fact that the many restrictions would cramp our style, it was impossible to avoid being checked and punished for the breaking of them. Even the cousins, brought up to obey, could not remember them all and so fell from grace quite often. None of the punishments were really cruel; rather they were all designed to make the culprit feel childish and ashamed.

Just then the Governess came in and as Carol and Mabel stood up, so did we. Before mentioning some of the irritating and childish, and cruel in a mental way, punishments to which we children were subjected, I shall give my impression of school with a governess.

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The same childish punishments were in vogue "Don't slouch!" here; incessantly it was "Don't." "Don't put your trousers' pockets;" "Straighten out the skirt of your pinny!" etc., etc. Some of these punishments and the humiliation they caused will be described soon. speaking for Babs and myself, we found the Governess very interesting and a good sport, when she wasn't nagging us about some rule we had broken

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