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think she need push things to this ex­

treme* His intention was to pel'suade
Mrs. Bagley to let the child come to

him for an hour’s instruction each
afternoon.

“ That ?s what it is to have a lucky
star,” said Peggy, when this plan was

explained to her. “ But you know you

study yourself in the afternoon, and
Mrs. Bagley —■ she would n’t feel that
she could spare me.if

Peggy never knew what arts Mr. Bo­

lander practised upon Mrs. Bagiev, but
at a certain hour each afternoon she

was released from work with the gra^
cious remark, “ Now scoot. If-those or­

phan asylum folks knew of the advan­
tages I ’m giving you with a private

tooter, like the child of a dook, I should
think they might be satisfied.”

So Peggy would joyfully lling down