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the fast group again. She advised me to do the same and said that Waldo had no business in that slow group, [[underlined]]but[[/underlined]] though the temptation was great I happen to know that she is in ill favor over at the school because of it and I truly don't think the boy is ready for another skip right away. The hardest part for him is that he misses his old associations and is in a less desirable group of children. Some boys fifteen years old! There are three others of his old class with him. Nine years old and in the fifth grade is good enough, lots better than any of us ever did. That's the one place Mrs. Barrows can't use good sense and that's over her children. Mrs. Flora is his teacher. Well, that's over! Sister goes to school all day now. And I think she is being prepared for a skip too. I do wish they'd stop that business. If they hurry her