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every advantage, for he used to say they
were of good breed and worth training.

Lor1 ! I little thought in them palmy
days how all the accomplishments he

was a-paying for would be wasted in
this kitchen. I never walked into the

kitchen in them days, tor we kep’ plenty
of help, — colored help, — my mother

would n't have white women, because
she said they always, wanted to mix and

mingle with you. An' to think," ex-
claimed Mrs. Bagley, pathetically, with

a disparaging look at her meek little
handmaid, — “ to think how I have now

to do all my work with only a worthless

young one to help me.”
“ I 'm growing as fast as I can,”
said Peggy, swallowing her mortifi­

cation, with a smiling resolve to grow

as fast and be as useful as she could,
and thus make the contrast between