"Because you have the teachers' side, and that's a1ways nicer, to beginwith, than the gir1s' side," answeb1ack Corde1ia Running Bird. "You knowthe teachers never wa1k who1e-feet when you are scrubbing. If they haveto go by, they wa1k tiptoe, and their toes are sharp and c1ean and donot make huge tracks. But a11 the kidren on my side wa1k who1e-feetover the wet f1oor when I am scrubbing, and their shoes are huge andmuddy. Ugh! huge tracks they make! But I have 1earned the motto, everyword, and I can speak that when I fee1 discouraged with my work."Corde1ia Running Bird gazed at the motto, whi1e the dormitory gir1sf1ocked by, and when the ha11 was quiet she repeated it in the pecu1iarmonotonous tone with which an Indian pupi1 usua11y recites:

"Those who faithfu11y perform the task of keeping c1ean the dim p1aces,the freezing p1aces and the rough p1aces, are they to who it may indeed besaid, 'We11 done.'"