Page 67 - The Little sister of Wilifred

CHAPTER. IV.

A PUZZLING QU ESTIO N .

I T is wonderful how far a little girl’s

education can progress with only

an hour a day for study. At the end of
one year Peggy had some knowledge of

the three R ’s. The truth is, that beside
having a natural love of books, the poor

child was secretly trying to “ catch up
with Mr, Bolander." Her chief ambi­

tion was to undertake the study of Latin,
and at the completion of each task she

would look up with those patient wistful
eyes of hers into Bolander’s face and ask

if it were not almost time to begin.
It was because they were so very

patient and wistful., and Jack Bolander’s