Chapter I: Front Matter

_CASSELL’S NEW GIRLS’ LIBRARY_

FEN’S FIRST TERM

By DOROTHEA MOORE

A DAUGHTER OF THE LEGION

By VIOLET M. METHLEY

THE PLUCKY PATROL: A GIRL GUIDE STORY

By NANCY M. HAYES

JILL THE OUTSIDER

By CHRISTINE CHAUNDLER

THE GIRLS OF CLANWAYS FARM

By MAY WYNNE

_Uniform with this Volume_

The Bravest Girl
in the School

By
ETHEL TALBOT

With Four Illustrations in
Colour and Black-and-White

CASSELL AND COMPANY, LIMITED
London, New York, Toronto and
Melbourne

First published 1924

_Printed in Great Britain_

_To_
HILDA SKAE

Contents

CHAPTER PAGE

1. A SECRET 1

2. GOING TO SCHOOL 12

3. NEW ARRIVALS 23

4. SCRAMBLED EGGS 34

5. RULES 46

6. THE HOPE-SCOTT PRIZE 58

7. HERMITS AND HORSES 68

8. PLANS FOR BEING BRAVE 78

9. MAINLY ABOUT HOCKEY 87

10. A HOLIDAY ADVENTURE 96

11. TO THE RESCUE 107

12. THE HOUSE ON THE CLIFF 117

13. A REBELLIOUS PLAN 127

14. THE HOCKEY MATCH 135

15. AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE 145

16. SYBIL RETURNS 155

17. THE “LITTLE HOUSE” 164

18. MARGOT’S STORY 173

19. NEWS FOR GRETTA 183

20. GRETTA AT HOME 196

21. THE HOPE-SCOTT SHIELD 204

List of Illustrations

“The three were off to the hockey-ground as gaily as though moods and mysteries had never been!” _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

“‘I’m coming to that,’ declared Stella, ‘if you’ll only wait’” 102

“‘_Long Jake_--why, it _is_ you!’ cried Margot’” 134

“Helen made an unexpected and brilliant stroke, thus winning the match by a single goal” 160

The Bravest Girl in the School