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Peaches proudly handed him the slate. In wavering lines and tremulous
curves ran her first day's work alone, over erasures, and with relinings,
in hills and deep depressions, which it is possible Mickey read because he
knew what it had to be, he proudly translated, "Mickey-lovest." Then the
lines of the night before, then "cow" and "milk." And then Mickey whooped
because he faintly recognized an effort to draw a picture of the cow and
the milk bottle.
"Grand Lily!" he cried. "Gee, you're the smartest kid I ever knew! You'll
know all I do 'fore long, and then you'll need your back, so's you can get
ready to go to a Young Ladies' Sem'nary."
"What's that?" interestedly asked Peaches.
"A school. Where other _nice_ girls go, and where you learn all that I
don't know to teach you," said Mickey.
"I won't go!" said Peaches.
"Oh yes you will, Miss," said Mickey. "'Cause you're my family, so you'll
do as I say."
"Will you go with me?" asked Peaches.
"Sure! I'll take you there in a big au----Oh, I don't know as I will
either.


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