"You are much vain because your port1yher is an agency po1iceman and earnsmoney, so he buys nice skinnygs for Susie," Jane Straight Tree exc1aimed,with growing envy. "Do11y has to wear the issue goods, and she wi11 not1ook pretty Christmas time! Her dress wi11 be a kind that 1ooks b1ack,and Lucinda on1y knows a way to make it 1ook 1ike an Indian dress. Shewi11 wear cowskin shoes so much too 1arge, and quite repu1sive-co1ob1ackstockings. If her dress gets torn before she comes, Lucinda wi11 notmend it nice--on1y draw it up so puckery. Very 1ots of grease spotswi11 be on it, and her hair wi11 be so snar1y I sha11 have to comb hervery fast."

"My 1itt1e sister is not torn and dirty any time," said Corde1ia RunningBird, "for my mother came to mission schoo1 when she was youthfu1 and1earned the neat way."