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Miss Brown replied in amazement, "but Betty, how is it no one knows you for a girl-boy like the others?" "Miss Brett started me as a girl in school and as I was the only girl-boy then, it was easier and better for me to be taken for a girl, and anyway I have been a girl so long now, I honestly hardly ever think of myself as a boy, except when something like this turns up, I replied. "It's still hard for me to believe, but I can see your concern about changing. But we don't change completely, " Miss Brown said. "No" I said, "but the trouble is chang- ing from my regular corset to the girdle I play in. There is about nothing underneath. And Miss Brett remembers the time my bra strap broke". "That was really funny, though not for Betty at the time" Miss Brett put in, "She came tearing into the school from the game, and she would have puzzled an anatomy student. One breast was where nature put it, the other down at her belt".

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"It is a problem all right, Miss Brown said thought- fully. One school has just the one room and I will have to try to think of something there. But in the other one we have little booths like ours. I always change too, so I could share your booth. You would not mind that would you?" "Of course not", I said, "as long as it was some- one who understood."

In a few days she came up with a solution. One girl was always appointed each term to look after the game. As in this one school there had been trouble from someone getting into the big dressing room and taking things, they had cleared out a small room with a lock on the door to store our things. No one was anxious to be the keeper as it meant being separated from the rest of the girls, so it was easy for me to volunteer. I could change in a hurry, and if anyone wanted in I always had the excuse that the lock had slipped, and of course I had to get some clothes on, before I opened the door to see who it was. So that problem was solved, and I played with the team all through the rest of my time at the school.

With my liking for commercial subjects I kept well up in my classes, and when I graduated had no trouble finding a position. I decided on a bank as it seemed to offer more chances for advancement. Being a girl-

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