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Biddy's first triumph in her new office, was to solve a difficulty

that had completely vanquishedof it Thus it was:-Again and again and again, my sister had traced upon the slate, a

character that looked like a curious T, and then with the ut she particularly

wanted I had in vain tried everything producible that began with a T,

froth it had con looked like a ha that word in my

sister's ear, she had begun to hammer on the table and had expressed a

qualified assent Thereupon, I had brought in all our hahte, and displayed

it to my sister with considerable confidence But she shook her head to

that extent when she was shown it, that ere terrified lest in her

weak and shattered state she should dislocate her neck

When my sister found that Biddy was very quick to understand her, this

htfully

at it, heard htfully at htfully at Joe (as always represented on the slate by his

initial letter), and ran into the forge, followed by Joe and me

"Why, of course!" cried Biddy, with an exultant face "Don't you see?