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I saw none or very few of the same girls and boys. The class is a good smaller than it used to be but I suppose that is on account of its being before Christmas.

We stood up to do the exercises, that is the 1st and 2nd classes, the third is the highest, as usual. After we had done a few steps Mr Dodworth came up to where I was standing and said "these [[strikethrough]] three[[/strikethrough]] four

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young ladies may sit down" which meant that we were in the third class. Three other girls and I sat down to our great delight, before the whole school.

I danced a good deal considering it was my first day and I hardly knew a person.

One little fellow remembered me from last year, and another came way over after the [[?slips]] when I was sitting down to