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They varied much, both in quality and quantity, from Maggie Woodhall's fine pen-and-ink drawing to May Firth's washy little attempt at a landscape, or the short poetical quotation signed "Beatrice Wynne". Cissie Gardiner, always of a romantic turn of mind, copied "Has sorrow thy young days shaded?" from Moore's Irish Melodies, in her neatest handwriting.
"Don't let it come on me! Oh, don't!" wailed Kitty Harrison. "It's there!" exclaimed Maud Greening. "Where?" "It's hopped on to Doris." "Oh! It will go down my neck!" shrieked Doris. "No, it's hopped off again." "It's on Maggie Woodhall's desk." "Catch it, Maggie!" "I daren't! I daren't!" "Squash it with your ruler." "I couldn't! I hate squashing things!" "It's gone again."
Winnie nearly left the parcel containing her bathing-dress on the seat near the booking office, only remembering it just in time; Maggie Woodhall's hat blew away over the line, and had to be recovered by the guard; and one of the luncheon baskets fell off the truck as the porter was wheeling it along the platform, much to Miss Lincoln's dismay, till she discovered it was luckily not the one which held the breakables.
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