Mag and Margaret: A Story for Girls

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"MERRY CHRISTMAS TO MAG ' I Mag to run with this letter to the post-box, right away." " Mag, I want the sitting-room dusted and put in order immediately; it is nearly time for Mr. Vance to call." " Mag, just take a stitch in this glove for me in about a second ; that is all the time I have to spare." " I want Mag to come and clear out my closet-shelf so I can put those boxes in as soon as possible." " Mrs. Perkins, can Mag run to the corner for some lemons right away? Norah is waiting for them." The subject of all these calls that needed in- stant attention was a girl of thirteen, Mag Jessup, little maid of all work in the boardinghouse of Mrs. Perkins. There was a time in her life, when she was called Margaret. I think her mother used that name when she first looked at her. Once, when she was a little bit of a girl, and went to a free kindergarten for a few weeks, the sweet-faced teacher called her " Maggie." But that was ever so long ago ; centuries ago the thirteen-year-old girl thought. For years and years she had been called " Mag." So long indeed that she had almost forgotten the other names. Mag Jessup was an orphan. Her mother had died when she was a wee girl, too young to remember her. The father had been killed when she was five years old, and the family had scattered. Mag's sis- ter Susan, only sixteen months younger than herself, had been adopted by a family whom Mag did not know even by name, and taken " away off." Mag herself was taken charge of by an aunt, who had lived only two or three years after that time, and then there had come a new aunt, who had many children of her own to look after, and not much money to do it with, and when the uncle died, what more natural than that Mag, who was then ten years old, should have to earn her own living? It was about