the expense of many play hours.

[Illustration: She drew the contents from her bag and spread them on
her lap.]

"Emma Two Bears made the waist so nice and said she would not take one
thing for pay, but I made her take a shell necklace that was very
pretty; but I did not care for it myself, it was so Indian-minded. Emma
is so generous. I wish I could be generous. If I should give the blue
dress to Dolly, and the black shoes and stockings, just like I should be
some generous. What if I should truly do it?" with a sudden interest in
her tone. "She would look as pretty as the little schoolgirls then, and
she could motion Jack Frost, and Hannah and the others could not say
Susie did not need the red dress and the brown shoes and stockings. I
am 'most sure Jessie Turning Heart will help me make the red dress, if I
bring the playroom wood for her, till we change work next month. She
hates to bring wood, for her foot gets cold, and then the sore bunch
pinches her much worse. She is very fast and stylish making dresses,
and she feather-stitches; and she says she is not cross at me. She said
one time she liked to sew so much, just like she would be getting up and
sewing in her sleep. So I shall ask her to trade work.

"But Hannah Straight Tree says she hates light blue, for it makes a
copper-colored Indian look much blacker; and she hates one tuck, and
there would have to be one, for the blue dress is too long for Dolly.
And it smuts some, too, and is not soft and fine. Hannah would not want
it. She would say Susie looked much nicer in the red dress, and Dolly
should not motion Jack Frost in the blue one."

Cordelia put the blue dress and the black shoes and stockings back into