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CHAPTER VI.
THE LITTLE TEACHER.

Av last Dotty’s “reasons” did begin to
grow. Her mother was too wise and kind
to allow her to have her own naughty way ;
and by the time she was four years old
she had very few “temper days,” and
seemed to be growing quite lovely.

But her sisters were troubled because she
had not yet learned to read. Prudy remem-
bered how ashamed she herself had felt
when she first set out in earnest to go to
- school. For some time after her lameness
she was so delicate that no pains had been

taken to teach her to read.