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WHAT KATY DID AT SCHOOL.
never found out that they were funny. All Rose's chairs had been borrowed for the occasion. Three girls sat on the bed, and three on the floor. With a little squeezing, there was plenty of room for everybody.
Katy was chosen President, and requested to take the rocking-chair as a sign of office. This she did with much dignity, and proceeded to read the Constitution and By-Laws of the Society, which had been drawn up by Rose Red, and copied on an immense sheet of blue paper.
They ran thus:—
Constitution of The Society for the Suppression of Unladylike Conduct, known to the Uninitiated as the S. S. U. C.Article I.
The object of this Society is twofold: it combines having a good time with the pursuit of Virtue.
Article II.
The good time is to take place once a week in No. 6 Quaker Row, between the hours of four and six p. m.
