Angela Brazil

A Popular Schoolgirl Angela Brazil

"Ingred! Ingred, old girl! I say, Ingred! Wherever have you taken yourself off to?" shouted a boyishvoice, as its owner, jumping an obstructing gooseberry bush, tore around the corner of the housefrom the kitchen garden on to the strip of rough lawn that faced the windows. "Hullo! Cuckoo!Coo-ee! In-gred!""I'm here all the time, so you needn't bawl!" came in resigned tones from under the shade of a largefuchsia. "You're enough to wake the dead, Chumps! What is it you want now! It's too hot to go awalk till after tea. I'm trying to get ten minutes peace and quiet!"Hereward, otherwise "Chumps," put his feet together in the second position, flung out his arms inwhat was intended to be a graceful attitude, and made a mock bow worthy of the cinema stage."Have them by all means, Madam!" he replied in mincing accents. "Your humble servant has nowish to disturb your ladyship's elegant repose. He offers a thousand apologies for hisunceremonious entrance into your august presence, and implores you to condescend--Ow! Stop it, you brute!"Hereward's burst of eloquence was brought to an abrupt end by the violent onslaught of a foxterrier puppy which flung itself upon him and began to worry his ankles with delighted yelps ofappreciation