Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LITTLE BEL'S SUPPLEMENT. "TNDEED, then, my mother, I'1l not take textit{- the school at Wissan Bridge without they promise me a supplement. It's the worst school i' a' Prince Edward Island." " I doubt but ye 're young to tackle wi' them boys, Bel," replied the mother, gazing into her daughter's face with an intent expression in which it would have been hard to say which predominated, — anxiety or fond pride. " I 'd sooner see ye take any other school between this an' Charlottetown, an' no supplement." " I 'm not afraid, my mother, but I '11 manage 'em well enough ; but I '11 not undertake it for the same money as a decent school is taught. They'1l promise me five pounds' supplement at the end o' the year, or I '11 not set foot i' the place." textit{" Maybe they '11 not be for givin' ye the school at all when they see what's yer youth," replied the mother, in a half-antagonistic tone. There was between this mother and daughter a continual undercurrent of possible antagonism, overlain and usually smothered out of sight by passionate attachment on both sides. Little Bel tossed her head. "Age is not everything that goes to the makkin o' a teacher," she retorted. "There's Grizzy McLeod; she's teachin' at the Cove these eight years, an' I 'd shame her myself any day she likes wi' spellin' an' the lines; an' if there's ever a boy in a school o' mine that '11 gie me a floutin' answer such 's I 've heard hdr take by the dozen, I'1l warrant ye he'1l get a birchin'; an' the trustees think there's no teacher like textit{Grizzy. I 'm not afraid." " textit{Grizzy never had any great schoolin' herself," replied her mother, piously. " There's no girl in all the farms that's had what ye've had, Bel." " It is n't the schoolin', mother," retorted little Bel. " The schoolin' 's g...