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She had a tireless industry that commended her to her teachers and she was always ready to accept additional tasks and duties . What they did not see was that she distributed these tasks among her friends and the girls in the lower grades and then was unwilling to help them in turn . `` I suppose you 've heard what Fannie Mears and Nina Edmonds have done now ? '' remarked Sarah one noon period when the fair was a scant week off . `` No , what ? '' asked Rosemary who avoided Nina 's name whenever possible . `` Why they 've taken three dozen needle-books that have to have the flannel leaves tied in them with ribbon , '' explained Sarah .