The Youngest Girl in the Fifth

Gwen! Gwen Gascoyne! Gwen! Anybody seen her? I say have you all gone deaf? Don't you hear me? Where's Gwen? I-want-Gwen-Gascoyne! The speaker-Ida Bridge-a small perky spindle-legged Junior jumped on to the nearest seat and raising her shrill voice to its topmost pitch twice shouted the Gwen Gascoyne with an aggressive energy calculated to make herself heard above the babel of general chatter that pervaded the schoolroom. Her effort though far from musical at any rate secured her the notice she desired. Hello there! Stop that noise! It's like a dog howling! irately commanded a girl in spectacles who was cleaning the blackboard.