"No wonder you did, but you're old enough now to keep it clean, and it won't take long to grow.

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"That's what Mrs. Williams, Karen's mother, said, I told her. "She said to tell mother that I looked so much like a girl, I ought to wear dresses all through school, and to let my hair grow so she could braid it. I think I would like braids.'

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"I think so too. You really are a pretty child.'

"Look what I have under my skirt too."

"Jack, that's the prettiest slip I ever saw, wish I had one as nice. Yes, and panties too. No wonder you like being a girl.'

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Just then mother came in. Why Betty, you didn't tell me Miss Brett was here, why did you keep her wait - ing?

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So it's Betty now is it? I have been calling him Jack, but Betty suits his looks better.'

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"We really have a reason for it. Alice takes him shopping, and she said any stranger would ask if he was her sister. I said what did it matter, but as she said, they would want to know his name, and Jack would spoil it. So we picked on Betty after his aunt, and so we wouldn't forget, started to call him that all the time, till we have forgotten he has any other name and so has he.

"I think he had better be Betty at school too. Girl- boys all get girl's names anyway, and he will have to sit with the girls, and the way he looks they will all think he is one.

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"You are sure it is going to be all right are you?"

"Yes, I was thinking of Mr. Campbell. He is really the nicest man and the best trustee. When we want anything for the school, we ask him first, and always get it. But he has such old-fashioned ideas a- bout clothes. He doesn't mind very small boys so much,

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