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However, this was not always the

 

case. When he was a baby, yes, and
even after he could walk about, May
certainly had spent most of her
time with him; for at that time the
school was too far off for her to at-
tend.

Still, even then, her good mother
had no notion of letting her grow
up a dunce; and, as she could read
herself, she made May read to her
for a little while every day, and then
set her a copy to write. And she
did not leave it to May’s fancies,
whether she would do her lessons or
leave them alone, you know, but
what she set her that she would have
done, and done properly.