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It was in this way that she always carried home her "li-bries" from Sunday-school, for all story-book reading was prohibited by her father.
Delighted as Tillie was to have the book for its own sake, it was yet greater happiness to handle something belonging to Miss Margaret and to realize that Miss Margaret had thought so much about her as to bring it to her. "It's a novel, Tillie. Have you ever read a novel?" "No'm. Only li-bries." "What?" "Sunday-school li-bries.
The candles which she used for this surreptitious reading of Sunday-school "li-bries" and any other chance literature which fell in her way, were procured with money paid to her by Miss Margaret for helping her to clean the school-room on Friday afternoons after school.