Page 195 - The Little sister of Wilifred
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fall  through,  and  she  was  now  just  as

                                 anxious  as  lie  was  that  Peggy  should

                                go  to  school.

                                    TJie  Doctor’s  coachman  brought  the
                                 promised  box,  the  contents  of  which

                                 Wilifred  recognized  as  some  of her  own

                                 clothes  which  had  been  cast  aside.
                                 How  well  she  remembered  the  day

                                 Estelle  had  folded  them  up,  with  the

                                 remark  that  some  poor  child  would  be

                                 glad  enough  to  get  them 1

                                    Mrs,  Bagley  showed  them  to  her,
                                 thinking  she  would-'no  doubt  be  pleased

                                 and  grateful.       It  must  be  an  odd  feel-

                                 ing  to  receive  one’s  own  cast-off  cloth­
                                 ing  as  a  gift,  and  Wilifred  did  not  know

                                 whether  to  laugh  or  cry;  but  111  spite

                                 of  her  protestations  it  was  packed  up

                                 in  a  little  black  trunk  with  some  of  the
                                 best  of  P eggy’s  clothing.

                                    Tim e  flew  like  a  bird.         One  o'clock
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