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her toes. ' Oh I Who's put this beastly thing into my bed? It's
scratched my foot horribly!' Mirabel had never had an apple-pie bed made
for her before. She could not imagine what had happened. She tried to
force her legs down to the bottom of the bed, but only succeeded in
tearing the sheet. The girls were in fits of laughter. They soon saw
that Mirabel had not experienced an apple-pie bed before, and had no
idea that the top sheet had been tucked under the bolster, and then
folded in half, half-way down the bed, and brought back to fold over the
blanket. Doris rolled on her bed in glee, and even placid Anna squealed
with joy. * Golly! You'll have to report that tear to Matron in the
morning/ said Elsie, when she heard the sheet torn in half. ' You idiot!
You might have guessed that would happen. You'll spend the next
sewing-class mending a long rent.' Mirabel threw the holly at Elsie. She
had now discovered what had happened, and was angry and hurt. She got
into bed and drew the covers round her. The others chuckled a little and
then one by one fell asleep. In the morning Mirabel awoke early. She lay
and thought over what she had decided the night before. It wasn't going
to be easy to make a complete changeover, but she didn't see anything
else to do. She simply could NOT go on being idiotic. Once you were
ashamed of yourself, you had to stop. If you didn't, then you really
were an idiot. So, full of good resolutions still, Mirabel went to her
classes. She would work well. She would give Mam'zelle a great surprise.
She would please Miss Jenks. She would make up for her rudeness to Miss
Quentin. She would even be decent to that wild little Carlotta, and
forgive her for that box on the ears. The girls would see she wasn't so
bad as they thought she was, and they would turn over a new leaf too,
and be friendly to her. Everything would be lovely again-and at the
half-term she would leave, and people would be sorry to see her go! It
was with these pleasant thoughts that poor Mirabel entered on a day of
horrid shocks and unpleasant surprises! 6 A DAY OF SHOCKS AND SURPRISES
-ALISON and Elsie were the two who enjoyed punishing Jlirabel more than
any of the others. Elsie because she! Alison because she had been so annoyed at losing her turn in Miss
Quentin's class. ' I'll sew up the sleeves of Mirabel's coat,' said
Alison to Elsie. I'll do them awfully tightly. She'll be furious!' 'I'll
take out some of her books and hide them,' said Elsie. ' Anna, go and
find Mirabel's Wellington boots and put small pebbles insider-right in
the toes.' ' Oh, can't some one else do that? ' said Anna. ' I shall
have to go down to the games-room to get the boots. Bobbie, you go.'
Elsie went to the classroom before morning school and removed various
books and exercise papers. There was no one else in the room. The girl
spitefully dropped ink on to a maths, paper that Mirabel had done. '
This will teach her to behave better!' said Elsie to herself. '
Now-where shall I put the books? ' She decided to put them at the back
of the handwork upboard, and cover them with the loose raffia there.
So into the cupboard went the books, and then Elsie, having a few
minutes to spare, looked round for something else to do. She saw the
List of Classroom Duties hung up on the wall and went to read them. It
was Mirabel's turn that week to keep the vases well-filled with water.
Elsie pursed up her lips spitefully. ' I'll empty out the water-and

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