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Yet it was a very quiet little child that crept down to the others a few minutes later; when asked of her fortune she burst into tears.,Then scartter seeds of kindness,“Hurry up, Moses,” she called, as soon as her joy had subsided, “git those pipes finished an’ go arfter yor chores.”,“Smile, Moses, dern yer empty corn-cob face! Smile!” shouted one.,“Yes, I s’pose we can listen to you scramble up and down the piano keys all night, but if I do anything it’s another story.”,“But some people like their work, don’t they?” May Nell persisted. She was exploring strange country.,“I’d love to, Billy,” Mrs. Lancaster whispered; “I’ve never liked being grown up.”,“WILLIAM TELL.,“Well, old Tom’ll have to be cleverer than I ever saw him to pay for that.”,“Measles,” Mrs. Bennett pronounced; and though it was a light case, and in a day or so Billy felt as well as ever except his eyes, they were sentenced to a dark room.,“Now, Mose, fer the elbow. Stiddy! Don’t shove! Don’t pull! Hole her stiddy!”,Betty Wopp was gambolling along the road with other little school-girls and heard the jeers addressed to the wretched boy. The penetrating sense of Moses’ need of her brought her to a halt. Indignation made her tight little braids of hair assume an aspect as terrific as Medusa’s snaky coils. She ran lightly up to Moses and walked beside him..