She had a worse grievance when Nancy Ellen hung
several new dresses and a wrapper on her side of the closet
after her first pay-day, and furnished her end of the
bureau with a white hair brush and a brass box filled with
pink powder, with a swan's-down puff for its applica-
tion. For three months Kate had waited and hoped that
at least "thank you" would be vouchsafed her; when it
failed for that lengith of time she did two things: she
studied so diligently that her father called her into the
bam and told her that if before the school, she asked
Nancy Ellen another question she could not answer, he
would use the buggy whip on her to within an inch of her
life. The buggy whip always had been a familiar imple-
ment to Kate, so she stopped asking slippery questions,
worked harder than ever, and spent her spare time plan-
ning what she would hang in the closet and put on her
end of the bureau when she had finished her Normal
course, and was teaching her first term of school.
Now she had learned all that Nancy Ellen could teach
her, and much that Nancy Ellen never knew: it was time
for Kate to be starting away to school. Because it was
so self-evident that she should have what the others had
had, she said nothing about it until the time came; then
she found her father determined that she should remain
at home to do the housework, for no compensation other



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than her board and such clothes as she always had worn,
her mother wholly in accord with him, and marvel of all,
Nancy Ellen quite enthusiastic on the subject.
