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and gave none. She fought with boys be bland when she got
f no odds, her battles. Her hair was said Sandy's hair would Ls but two
and won most of natural olor. I predicted.
THE REDEMPTION 0 F SANDY combed and clean clothes were rare. down to its the C7rpert
seldom she was as friendly as a shepherd shades 1- ,ham than
By nature position arose she was a cross
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The preacher met Sandy at a ball game, but when op + + +
attracted because of her free and loud use of between a cockle burr and a Bengal tiger.
1 ;: profanity. A boy on the sandlot attempted Her teacher said Sandy did well
ll in she school,
would
:i to move up his batting turn by taking the turn expressed hope for the g Sand and two other
to Sandy. He was new in the com- and P wear clean clothes, and comb On commencement day Y
belonging fighting, girls were selected to show the results of the
muniry, for no local boy would have dared do he Phairr The teacher said Sandy spoke perfect
F '' such a thing. Sandy simply picked up a bat, English; the teacher did not attend the sandlot class work. When Sandy appeared m a dainty
Engl ' shade of pink, wearing a becoming hat, a beau-
� walked up co the intruder, and emphatically ball games. over her shoulder, the
promised to knock his brains out. tful blond curl hanging
The boy evidently believcn her for she took *4` + ' ' crowd was breathless. She marched up and
her turn and knocked a hon; _:��, by sliding czown the stage in fashion-show manner and
for the home base. The preacher .o interest Sandy in c,2,rtesied as if trained in an English boarding
As she brushed off r' 1:Et (which o in a
made little difference z ` :° < ''hes) and Sunday School 1-: would not g school. Sandy was a lady.
I , irl's class. She .sme if she could be in
walked over to the ly:r r:4�e� con- g The church women returned to their wealthy
y� S she had licked all the ,_omes re o. in as if one sinner had repented,
gratulated her. the bo s class. . . j g
"That u don'thbor- boys in it but or.:,; - did not duck down an and the college girls went back to the campus
guy V.b alley when she coming. That was
hood," said Sandy, a < < =i�. Y as happy as if they had found a new sorority
V "Oh yes, he does. z pre Cher Sandy at twelve. sister, but Sandy still lived in the tough end
over at the church." When she was ;l;: ::vll, the preacher noticed of town with the record of her past.
— _ "Well put a lily it, ,r! :,;::. ' Think of a that she had attetn;.<ix� to comb her hair. She She met the stares of the neighborhood or
preacher shaking hands -Uiu guess I had had also tied a facic--u ribbon around her head.better start going to church." She joined a dress-making and millinery class heard the shouts of the street gangs—"Sandy
in the church. The people about the church is a lady! Sandy is a lady!" She could report
+ + + were poor. Since clothes have an influence on to no one the hopes that had come to her
character it was the church's business to work heart.
Sandy was a type that only the tough end out a plan to get them. In the past she had conflicts enough, but
of town can produce. She lived in a saloon Business men donated material. Women they were all in the field of physical endurance.
f section, where there was plenty of fighting. from the other churches and the college girls Now there was a new battle to fight in a
She played in the alleys and streets. She asked furnished instruction. strange and untried world. The church was
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