"And that brings us straight to the point concerning you," said
Linda.

"Sure enough!" said Donald. "There is me to be considered! What
is it you have against me?"

Linda looked at him meditatively.

"You SEEM exceptionally strong," she said. "No doubt are good in
athletics. Your head looks all right; it indicates brains. What
I want to know is why in the world you don't us them."

"What are you getting at, anyway?" asked Donald, with more than a
hint of asperity m his voice.

"I am getting at the fact," said Linda, "that a boy as big as you
and as strong as you and with as good brain and your opportunity
has allowed a little brown Jap to cross the Pacific Ocean and a
totally strange country to learn a language foreign to him, and,
and, with the same books and the same chances, to beat you at
your own game. You and every other boy in your classes ought to
thoroughly ashamed of yourselves. Before I would let a Jap,
either boy or girl, lead in my class, I would give up going to
school and go out and see if I could beat him growing lettuce and
spinach."

"It's all very well to talk," said Donald hotly.

"And it's better to make good what you say," broke in Linda, with
equal heat. "There are half a dozen Japs in my classes but no