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CHAPTER V.
RATHER UPPISH.
UT perhaps you may wonder
how it was that the little
sister, May, came to know

  

so much herself as to be able to
write letters, which you will remem-
ber I told you she could do, rather
cleverly, some time ago. For it
must seem to you that she was al-
ways employed in taking care of her
little brother, and so had no time to
learn herself.