"Ee! She would! She would!" disputed Jane Straight Tree. "Dolly isas brave and smart as Susie--smarter, too, for she is shorter! Shecould play the games if I would let her!"

"But you will not," said in reply the other; "you must not scold about mylittle sister. Susie knows the motions in the Jack Frost song so wellthe teachers says that she can motion with the small children in the Christmasentertainment."