nsidered it certainly ought to possess. Briarcroft
had no school magazine, and not even among the Seniors had one ever been
suggested.

"Yet it's really a most necessary thing," urged Gipsy. "How else can one
give notice of coming events, and reports of what has taken place? It's
such fun, too! Why shouldn't we steal a march on the Upper School and
start one of our own?"

"There's the expense, my child, for one thing," replied Mary Parsons,
who was treasurer of the United Guild. "The subscriptions don't go very
far when we want to buy so many things with them. I'm sure they wouldn't
run to printing."

"I never intended having it printed. I know that would be beyond us."

"Perhaps we could have it typed," suggested Fiona Campbell, whose father
was a journalist. "Dad always sends his articles to a typing office, and
it looks just as good as printing when it's done."

"I don't think the Guild could afford even that," said Mary. "The
costumes for the play will about clear out the funds for this term, and
next term, you know, we voted to buy a developing machine."

"It was mean of the Seniors to stick to all the properties of the other
Guilds! They might have given us something," put in Norah Bell.

"Trust them! They wouldn't part with so much as a twopenny music sheet!"
said Gipsy. "But about the Magazine; it needn't cost us anything. My
idea was to ask Miss White to lend us the duplicator, and we'd make a
copy for each Form. They could be lent round and round. If we liked we
might put in a few illustrations. You're good at drawing, Fiona."

"That certainly sounds more simple," said Dilys. "And the Mag. would be
ripping fun. We'd have articles and poetry and stories and reviews and
all sorts of things."

"Would it be a monthly?" enquired Hetty.

"I should say about twice a term would be enough," said Gipsy. "It would
be difficult to get contributions if you had it too often."

"We couldn't duplicate the illustrations," objected Fiona, whose mind
was already turned to things artistic.

"No; each Form would have to provide its own pictures for its own copy.
That would make it all the more interesting. There'd be no two quite
alike."

"And we could even have advertisements, and a kind of Exchange and
Mart!" exclaimed Dilys, who was immensely taken with the idea. "It would
just suit the First and Second; they're always trading white mice or
silkworms with one another."

"We'll add a Beauty Bureau, with hints ab