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off than I am,” said Peggy. “ But

then I want to be different from Mrs.
Bagley."

u She isn ’t my ideal either, Peggy;
but we are an ambitious lot.”

“ Mr* Brewer, who lives io the hand­
some house on the corner,” went on

Peggy, paying no attention to this play­
ful sarcasm, “ made all his money, Mr.

Bagley says, by inventing an egg-beater.

Just an egg-beater! Mrs. Bagley
bought one the other day, so as to be
neighborly. I suppose, and i have used

it. It makes your arm ache dreadfully,

but he got rich by it all the same.
Then there was the man that invented

rubber for the . end of pencils. Mr.
Bagley said be made heaps of money,

and I Tvc made up my mind that the
best thing for me to do is to invent

something, — 1 don't know what exactly.