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She had a worse grievance when Nancy Ellen hung several new

dresses and a wrapper on her side of the closet after her first

pay-day, and furnished her end of the bureau with a white hair

brush and a brass box filled with pink powder, with a swan's-down

puff for its application For three months Kate had waited and

hoped that at least "thank you" would be vouchsafed her; when it

failed for that length of tiently that her father called her into the barn and told her

that if before the school, she asked Nancy Ellen another question

she could not answer, he would use the buggy whip on her to within

an inch of her life The buggy whip always had been a fa slippery questions,

worked harder than ever, and spent her spare ti in the closet and put on her end of the bureau when

she had finished her Nor her first

term of school

Now she had learned all that Nancy Ellen could teach her, and much

that Nancy Ellen never knew: it was ti

away to school Because it was so self-evident that she should

have what the others had had, she said nothing about it until the

time came; then she found her father determined that she should