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Harriet nodded and looked at her benefactor with glowing eyes. "Oh, yes," she said. "Yes yes. It is like heaven, in spite of the hard work they make me do. I'm right down afraid of that old Frenchman, and when Professor Morrow shuts his eyes and groans, 'Door d-o-o-r, Miss Walker, not d-o-u-g- h, I could cry. But I'm happy all the same, and I forgot that for a whole week."
"That's the way Teacher Thomas used to say it," retorted Chester, sitting down on the long bench where the Fifth Reader class was posted. "D-o-u-g dug Douglas," I snapped. "'Douglas round him drew his cloak. Now, Ira Snarkle, you may read five lines, beginning with the second stanza." Ira was very tall for his sixteen years.
Excellent, Ira; you put spirit in your reading. One can almost picture you beneath Tantallion's towers, drawing your cloak around you and giving cold respect to the stranger guest. But why say "Dooglas"? "S-o-u-p spells soup," answered Ira loftily to my question. "Then D-o-u-g must spell doog." "I tell you it's Douglas. 'The hand of Douglas is his own," I cried.
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