The Naughtiest Girl: Naughtiest Girl In The School: Book 1

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You have to put all the cash you bring with you into a box and from that, each child gets 2/- (two shillings). I then went home and then looked up all the telephone numbers of all the Blytons in Sheffield in the phone book. Through his industry the school enjoys green peas and other delights for their meals and he's granted 12/6d immediately (there you are — that's near enough to 70 pence for a garden spade). At another institution however, where I stayed overnight, I was privileged to sit in on a School Meeting which was held after tea.

The naughtiest girl in the school continues her plan and gets up to all kinds of mischief in the classroom and she even breaks bounds and nips off to the village unaccompanied which is a No-No!He was in the Royal Air Force for at least seven years in the 1920s, and later lived abroad: "With Carey overseas, it had been left to Hanly to bear the brunt of caring for an ailing and difficult mother throughout his married life and - for the past twenty years - for his two children and a sick and almost bed-ridden wife. The confiscation of the pupils' money and the doling out of 2/- each from the box was the basis for accusations of communistic practices which were rampant — at least around the Fifties. You're all old enough to look after yourselves now, and we thought you'd love the chance to have a holiday on your own!

An arm-like gadget was lowered onto the revolving disc and interpreted/channelled the resultant vibrations into music which poured forth from a speaker. If extra money is needed for some good cause that might be beneficial to the school as a whole or you need extra money for some genuine emergency then the appropriate funds can be extracted from The Box which is used to gather up any money that the children receive in the form of birthday presents or perhaps tips from aunts and uncles.Johns who doesn't seem to have all that much to do so maybe he just keeps the headmistresses in check. Elizabeth doesn't behave — even towards a monitor, and when she swings into the boy and kicks him so that he falls right over he demonstrates his superiority and dispenses justice by grabbing hold of her dark curls and pulling them hard. The Lockgelly (named after Lochgelly, in Fife, where it was made, was a thick leather strap, about 15 inches long, one end of which was cut into 3 'tails' or thongs for maximum effect.

There had been little enough contact between brother and sister before their mother's death and now there was even less, and Enid must have been aware that Hanly felt she could have given more help of a practical nature at a time when he already had more than enough to cope with at home. Because Elizabeth is becoming so spoilt and naughty it's felt that going away to school will be good for her and perhaps rub off a few of her corners but she would have to leave her pony and her dog behind and go far away to live with strange girls and boys so Elizabeth is dead against the idea. I often find myself salivating while reading about the large variety of food-stuffs the Five consume throughout the 21 books (who doesn't? Elizabeth has apparently been blessed with laughing blue eyes and intelligence and Miss Scott has remarked that she's 'Pretty, and Merry, and Rich' but she's also plain naughty.But here's an interesting fact: we have all these low-fat foods, special diets, and so on, and obesity rates are higher now than ever before; yet when I was a boy we had none of this, and ate fattening foods quite freely (we even cooked food in dripping! I can testify from personal experience that most parents during the 1960s/70s were not afraid to use corporal punishment.