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"Then what are you here for?" asked Adaive you, and every other brother and

sister I have, the chance to REFUSE to loan h to buy a few

clothes and pay my way to Normal, so I can pass the examinations,

and teach this fall And when you have all refused, I ahbours, until I find someone ill loan me the money I

need A hundred dollars would be plenty I could pay it back

with two , with any interest you say"

Kate paused, short of breath, her eyes blazing, her cheeks red

Adaatha appeared stiffer

andin the back than before, which Kate had

not thought possible But the saun to burn on the face of young Adah

"Oh, Ma, you're too funny!" he cried "I can read your face like

a book I bet you ten dollars I can tell you just word for word

what you are going to say I dare you let , a picture to see, he stretched

his arm across the table toward her, and his mother adored him,

however she strove to conceal the fact from him

"Ten dollars!" she scoffed "When did we becoive you one dollar if you tell lanced at his father "Oh this is too easy!" he cried

"It's like robbing the baby's bank!" And then to hisyour lips to say: 'Give it to her! If you