"Ee! Talk lower so the teacher will not hear you," said Cordelia, with
a sudden flutter of the breath. "You must choose Dolly half the time--
if Susie plays."

"She is too bad-looking," said a third. "Susie has two pairs of pretty
shoes, and two nice dresses, and we like her better."

"But you must not talk that way before the larger girls," Cordelia
cautioned in an undertone. "Doily has a new hair ribbon like the red
one I have bought for Susie--both are in my lap. And I have bought a
pink one for Lucinda. I wish to do them good--Hannah Straight Tree,
too. You must tell the larger girls you like Dolly just as well as
Susie. If they wear alike ribbons on their braids it will be nice."

"A new ribbon cannot dress Dolly up," remarked the prudent little girl.
"The points of her hairs will look like Susie's points, and that is
all."




CHAPTER V.

Sunday morning there was wonder in the school to see Cordelia Running
Bird in the heavy government shoes that had been lying in her cupboard
since the distribution of the clothing early in the fall. And when it
was observed that she had dressed for Sunday-school and had not changed
the shoes the wonder grew to pure amazement.