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WORK IN STORE. 
Annie hesitated. She would very much 
have preferred dusting the books,—an em¬ 
ployment of which she was very fond ; but 
she prided herself upon keeping her 
word, and she knew that she had promised. 
Besides, she was really very fond of Daisy 
and loved to give her pleasure. 
“I believe I shall finish the doll’s frock,” 
she said, finally. “ She seems, by Daisy’s 
account, to he badly off* for clothes.” 
Daisy looked very much pleased. 
“And what will you do, Dick?” she 
asked. 
“ I am going to do some whittling,” said 
Bichard; “ and if aunt will let me bring my 
chips into the house we will sit together, 
and Sidney can read to us out of his new 
book.” 
“ To-be-sure,” assented Sidney. “ I think 
it is a great deal better to read aloud than 
to read to one’s self.” 
“So don’t I,” said Annie. “But I am 
glad you do. Perhaps it may not rain, after 
all,—though it certainly looks very much 
like it.” 
“There are two signs of fine weather,” 
said Bichard, going to the window. “ The 
