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There was head and foot in the Second Reader. Emmy Lou heard it whispered the day of her entrance into the Second-Reader room.
Once, head and foot had meant Aunt Cordelia above the coffee tray and Uncle Charlie below the carving-knife. But at school head and foot meant little girls bobbing up and down, descending and ascending the scale of excellency.