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Once, when Dora had announced in the hearing of a pupil-teacher that she was the prettiest girl in the school: "You ain't, then," the older girl had told her. "You are not pretty at all, Dora, but exactly like your brother Jim." "Jim's ugly! You're a-tazin' of me!" Dora had fiercely cried. "If you hadn't your curls you'd be Jim over again," the teacher had persisted.
"Why don't ye tell 'm yu ain't a-dyin', stids o' layin' there, that mander. They're allust a-tazin' of me?" To-day no one had said the hated words; and mother would like to hear how teacher had "kep'" her at her side, and coaxed her hair.
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