Mimi at Sheridan School

For two reasons Betsy could hardly hear the last of Sue's tirade. She had covered up head, ears and all. Sue had run in the bathroom to dress where it was warmer and had closed...

Even though Mimi heard the announcement in chapel that Green Cap Week began today, something had to happen to her before she realized its significance. She was hurrying down the...

If Daddy's office nurse hadn't called and said that he had an emergency case there is no telling when the Birthday dinner party would have ended. Even as the telephone rang and...

"Not that way." Mimi interrupted Betsy's rollicking song. "This way--Notice I did _not_ say this A-way. I've learned one thing at Sheridan. 'Merrily we _ride_ along, _ride_ alon...

"I am going to get up. I have a bad case of something, a cross between the heebie-jeebies and the jitters. I'm naturally wild on Friday nights and want to celebrate."

Mimi ran her fingers up and down the crinkles of the blue and white striped bed cover. She made dents with her fists for lakes then smoothed them all out and began again. This t...

"One has come for you, but Dr. Barnes has it. He is out now. He said tell you no one was ill and for you not to be frightened. That it was about a matter you and he had discusse...

A cannibal king With a big nose ring Once loved a Zulu maid; And every night When the moon was bright Across the canal he'd wade; To hug and kiss His dusky Miss While under the...

Mimi blotted the page and closed her diary quickly at the first knock on the door of Tumble Inn. She felt her eyes with the back of her hand to be sure there was no trace of tea...

What proved to be one of the happiest weeks Mimi spent at Sheridan had a fearful beginning. When she dashed in the post office between classes to see if she had a letter from Ge...

Sheridan School's main building was shaped like a "U." Beginning as a three story brick building it had grown, rather like Topsy. Wings had been added as the school grew. The or...

For Mimi, the next few days rolled slowly into a week. There was constant fear that Madge would yet develop flu or pneumonia. Frail appearing people were not always delicate, Mi...

"I hadn't noticed but I can guess. It's the first Christmas she was ever away from her folks and that must be it. She has the grandest family. I'll miss them, too. The Hammond's...

The roof garden party was not begun as the social affair it turned out to be. In the beginning it was strictly a business proposition. The party was an outgrowth of a "Be Beauti...

For the first time in ever so long Mimi was rude! She shoved, pushed, crowded, stepped on other passengers' toes, jabbed them with her elbows. She forgot that every other camper...

Under ordinary circumstances Mimi would have liked Chloe. If Sue had not come she might even have chosen her from all the Prep students for her roommate. Chloe was exquisite to...

Things were happening thick and fast these days. Classes and study hall were realities. Rainy weather cut the soccer season short. Mimi, to whom the game was new, stayed on firs...

When Mimi pranced into Tumble Inn and did a fan dance using her tennis racquet for a fan, Chloe jerked something off the table and stuck it in her portfolio. Betsy and Sue stepp...

Mimi and Olivia sat back to back under one of the biggest trees on the campus. Each held an open Spanish Grammar on her drawn-up knees. Each had her nose between the pages.

Mimi was in front of the mirror in her green polka dot pajamas trying to do a back flip like a Vandy cheer leader when Sue and Chloe walked in. Betsy was still in bed.

Regardless of the fact that Mimi would rather forget the fire and all the horror that went with it, naturally the fire was the main discussion everywhere she turned. Disaster an...

There was a thin crescent moon tonight; the stars were shedding more light than it. The dim light made the figures of the tired girls look like discarded rag dolls that had been...

Mimi blushed. She could not fib with a straight face. She edged around keeping her back away from Chloe as she was clutching behind her a letter which had just come from Daddy....

"You'll _love_ our room, Sue!" Mimi was saying as she relieved Sue of some of her luggage as they trailed Mrs. Cole's swishing serge skirt toward Prep Hall. Styles could come an...

Sunday was a full day, but Mimi was glad when it was over. She shook hands and made curtsies off and on all day. Meeting other girls' parents and sisters and brothers was fun bu...