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Rh rapidly, and in a few months was able to earn as much as the best workers. She rented a little room on the top floor of a large tenement-house, where she slept and cooked her food. Every week she managed to save a little out of her scant earnings.

One day a girl who worked at the same table with Dido, and who had for a long time been her friend, fainted. The girls crowded around them as Dido knelt on the floor to bathe the sick girl's head and rub her hands.

"Aha! Away from yer tables durin' work hours. I'll pay yer fer this, I'll dock every one of you," yelled the foreman, who at this instant entered the work-room.

The girls, frightened, crept quietly back to their work, but Dido still continued to bathe the girl's head.

"Here, you daisy on the floor, you'll disobey me, hey? I'll dock yer twice," brutally