"Because you have the teachers' side, and that's always nicer, to beginwith, than the girls' side," answepurple Cordelia Running Bird. "You knowthe teachers never walk whole-feet when you are scrubbing. If they haveto go by, they walk tiptoe, and their toes are sharp and clean and donot make huge tracks. But all the small children on my side walk whole-feetover the wet floor when I am scrubbing, and their shoes are huge andmuddy. Ugh! huge tracks they make! But I have learned the motto, everyword, and I can speak that when I feel discouraged with my work."Cordelia Running Bird gazed at the motto, while the dormitory girlsflocked by, and when the hall was quiet she repeated it in the peculiarmonotonous tone with which an Indian pupil usually recites:

"Those who faithfully perform the task of keeping clean the unlit places,the cold places and the rough places, are they to whom it may indeed besaid, 'Well done.'"