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her dish-towel or her broom, as the cast!

might be, and skip upstairs to more
congenial tasks.

The story got abroad that Bolander
was teaching trigonometry to the slavey,

and be was ridiculed unmercifully for a
simple act of kindness, but no amount

of ridicule could alter his purpose.
“ 1 may be deficient in humor,1' he

would say, “ but 'I can’t see anything
so funny in helping a little girl who

has the good sense to care for an educa­
tion;1

Sometimes their whole hour would be
wasted by these frolicsome young gen­

tlemen, who would beat a tattoo 00 the
door until Peggy's little head whirled,

and Mr. Bolander danced about the
room in helpless anger.

Once a number of them, each wearing
a checked pinafore and carrying a book