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`` That 's nothing -- I 'm to row Dora Estabrooke twice around the lake , '' mourned Louise . `` She weighs two hundred , if she weighs a pound . Thank goodness , I do n't have to do it to-night . '' Norma was instructed to walk three times around the cellar , chanting `` Little Boy Blue '' before ten o'clock that night . Frances Martin , to her horror , was enjoined to produce six live angle worms the following morning -- `` and you know I despise the wiggling things , '' she wailed . Alice Guerin , the silent member of the octette , was condemned to recite `` The Children 's Hour '' in the dining room `` between cereal and eggs . '' And Constance Howard was told she must add up an unbelievably long column of figures and present the correct answer within half an hour .