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Jacqueline could be admitted to the school. He told the Mother who he was, that he was the head of the local of the longshoremen's union, that he lad the strike, and so forth. She'd been in public school before, hadn't she? He said, yes, she had been in public school, but that she had a pretty hard tims in the public school. The other girls had begun to call her nanes, to tease her, to make fun of her, to slight her, calling her a Bolshevik, making her feel vary embarrassed on account of the bad things that were sometimes said in the paper about him. The mother Superior said to him, ‘Is she a baptised child?’ Bridegs and his wife said, ‘Yes.’ Well, the Mother Superior was kind of rattled, because they run a girls' school and have to be careful. She said she'd look and see what she could do. She came running over to see me, not knowing what she should do. Should she accept this child. I said. The same thing to her, ‘Is she a baptised child?’
“‘Yes, she's baptized.’ “'And her parents asked to have her admitted to your school. Certainly admit her to your school. Every Catholic school is for every baptized child and for any other child that needs an education, but particularly a baptised child has got a right to come to it if her parents
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