I put `` teacher '' where he put `` lady '' and I put in something of my own when I could think of it and I changed some words . I put `` dress '' in place of `` mood . '' I did n't know just what a `` mood '' was but I s ` posed it was something to wear . I did n't s ` pose you 'd know the difference . I do n't see how you found out it was n't all mine . You must be awful clever , teacher . ' `` I told Annetta it was very wrong to copy another person 's letter and pass it off as her own . But I 'm afraid that all Annetta repented of was being found out . '' ` And I do love you , teacher , ' she sobbed . ` It was all true , even if the minister wrote it first . I do love you with all my heart . ' `` It 's very difficult to scold anybody properly under such circumstances . `` Here is Barbara Shaw 's letter . I ca n't reproduce the blots of the original . '' ` Dear teacher , '' `` You said we might write about a visit . I never visited but once . It was at my Aunt Mary 's last winter . My Aunt Mary is a very particular woman and a great housekeeper . The first night I was there we were at tea . I knocked over a jug and broke it .
Aunt Mary said she had had XXXXX jug ever since she was married and nobody had ever broken it before .
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