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creature  deserves,  and  perhaps  it's  what

                                       I  deserve  too.J1
                                          And  then  straightway  the  strangest

                                       idea  came  into  that  little  girl’s  head, the

                                      like  of which  would  never have  occurred
                                       to  any  other  than  a  generous,  venture­

                                      some  child  like  herself.
                                          She  started  up  in  the  grass;  looking

                                       with  her  bright  eyes  at  Peggy,  like  a
                                       determined  little  squirrel.

                                          “ I  knew  I  could  think  of  a plan,”  she
                                      said.  “ Now,  I ’ll  tell  you  what,-— we

                                       will  take  turns  being  Mrs;  Bag ley’s  ser­
                                      vant.     I  ’m  sure  that \s  fair.   Randolph

                                      and Arthur  said  that, if  we  were  dressed
                                      alike*  no  one  could  tell  us  apart;  so  we

                                      have  only  to  change  our  clothes,  and

                                      you  can  go  home  with  papa,  and  I  will
                                      go  to  Mrs.  Bagley "s.           Won’t  it  be
                                      funny?  ”

                                          Peggy,  however,  naturally            shrank
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