Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 465
. But their teachers, knowing all aboutthese homes, have been daily teaching them theself-respect that comes from cleanliness and neat-ness. They are even ready to supply the shoesand stockings and clean aprons which the littlewaifs need that they may come to school. Thetruant-officer, whose name… … takes in each one of them gives them hopefulnesssuch as they had not known of before. No wonderthat the schoolroom is so pleasant a place that theyare willing to flock to it, even in the weeks whenmost boys and girls are enjoying vacation. Indeed, some of you more pampered children,weary with a…
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