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"Why, you must be crazy!" said Nancy Ellen

"Would I be any crazier than you, when you wanted to go?" asked

Kate

"But you were here to help Mother," said Nancy Ellen

"And you are here to help her now," persisted Kate

"But I've got to fix up my clothes for the County Institute," said

Nancy Ellen, "I'll be gone o as you had," said Kate

"Father and Mother both say you shall not go," answered her

sister

"I suppose there is no use to remind you that I did all in my

power to help you to your chance"

"You did no more than you should have done," said Nancy Ellen

"And this is no more than you should do for me, in the

circumstances," said Kate

"You very well know I can't! Father and Mother would turn lad if they would turn me out," said Kate "You

can letbut talk; and Father would not strike you, orof the sort! I can't, and I won't, so there!"

cried Nancy Ellen