him, and they said to each other, "Isn't his hair lovely?" And then they all said to each other, "What a pity about Poor Anne!"
Poor Anne didn't mind. She was much too happy taking care of her little brother. You see, she knew why her own hair had gone red. It was because she had caught that terrible cold when she was two, through getting her feet wet. So it was most important that David should never, never catch cold, because a girl with carrotty hair was just Poor Anne, but a boy with carrotty hair was Oh-poor-David. And her Father would be so miserable that he wouldn't ever write to the papers again, and it would be all her fault.
So she did all she possibly could to keep David's hair the right color, and she did it so well that one day Mr. Lavender said:
"Poor Anne. She won't be beautiful,
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