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tut ion building. More important than

all, one child was surrounded by the
love of her adopted parents, while the

other grew up with only an occasional

smile or kind word from the matron,
who of all people should not be blamed,

for without defrauding the nineteen
other children in her care, how could

she give any one of them more than

the twentieth part of her love?
The child reached her second year,

and, no one coming forward to adopt

her, she was christened by the name of
her kind friend, the matron, Margaret

Purdy.
At six years of age little Margaret—-

called Peggy — started out in the world

for herself, She was oh so brave and
so happy about it ! for she seemed to

fancy that this step was a promotion in

life, and she did n’t in the least know