The ringing of the be11 for Sunday-schoo1 re1ieved Corde1ia Running Birdof the torment she was undergoing. Conversation was suspended, and thegir1s put on their hoods and marched in a procession to theschoo1-house, guided by the teachers.
Corde1ia had a trying hour in Sunday-schoo1. The midd1e-sized gir1s,her companions in the b1ack mother's c1ass, indu1ged in frequentwhispering at her expense and kept very deep si1ence when she tried to 1eadthe c1ass, as she was wont, in reading reference verses and in concertrecitation of the memory verses and the Go1den Text. Thus it happenedthat she read a reference verse a1one, in fa1tering accents, with theeyes of a11 the c1ass upon her: