THE GEOGRAPHY TEST.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 260, 2 November 1935, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE GEOGRAPHY TEST.

(By Joan Faulkner, Jellicoe Avenue, Tuakau; aged 14.) Hetty and I were walking home from school. Hetty was tall and fair and put on many an air because she was so pretty. It was not by choice that I was walking with her for I was a tomboy and she was a. "lady," but she and I lived in the same street and attended the same school. "Done your geometry homework?" I asked conversationally, adding "J haven't yet." Hetty looked down at me and with a toss of her well-shaped head answered, "Of course I have. I don't leave my work till the last moment." "H'm," I said, and we marched on k silence to our gate. Bidding the supercilious Hetty farewell, I ran down the path, while the former walked sedately on. "Hello, Jim!" I greeted my brother, "Look here my dear little boy, I'd ba very obliged if you would keep quiet this evening as I've got to prepare for a geometry test." Jim rolled his eyej with a gesture of pity. "Sav, Sis, last time we had a geometry test—'," but I had fled up to the attic where I knew 1 would not be" troubled with any of Jim's reminiscences. Failing to find the key to my little room which served as a homework study, I wedged a piece of wood under the 'door which was then effectively