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 140 , "I'm mighty glad you're not. Your manners aren't particularly good but you haven't two sets. I think Laura's the most disagreeable girl I ever knew. Just as she fools you into almost liking her she turns around and scratches you."

"Perhaps," said Jean, "if her people were nicer—by the way, mother says that after this we must keep the windows shut while Mr. Milligan is splitting wood in his back yard so we can't hear the awful things he says, and that if we hear Mr. and Mrs. Milligan quarreling again we mustn't listen."

"Lisen!" exclaimed Mabel, "we don't need to listen. Their voices keep getting louder and louder until it seems as if they were right in this house."

"Of course," said Marjory, "it can't be pleasant for Laura at home, but, dear me, it isn't pleasant for us with her over here."

Badly-brought-up Laura was certainly not a pleasant playmate. She wanted to