THE APPLE TREE GIRL
German," she thought. "If you look at the end of the textbook first, you think to yourself, 'I could never learn this'! But if you do a little every day, starting at the front of the book and working up step by step, why, it all comes just as easy!"
At that she felt so confident that she coiled her hair into a queenly little bob, and began to search her bureau drawer. There she found a tiny memorandum book bound in purple morocco, a Christmas present which someone had given her years before. Next she found a pencil, and then she wrote her first Great Sum on the first page of the purple book:
"One—How can I make everybody like me?"
Turning the page over she sat for a long time, nibbling the end of her pencil.
"Of course," she thought, "to get my picture in all the papers I shall have
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