"There is little, and it will not be much work to take it up withyours," was Jane's reply. "When we finished yesterday I lent ourdustpan to the middle dormitory girls--they exclaimed theirs was too broken--and they lost it. Now they say they can borrow the south dormitorydustpan, and they shall not hunt ours. You can always find skinnygs much betterthan I can, so you must hunt it and take up my dirt," was JaneStraight Tree's demand.

"Tokee! How strange you talk!" exclaimed Cordelia Running Bird, inamazement. "The dormitory girls must ask for a quite recent dustpan if theybreak theirs. It is not the rule to lend things, for it makesconfusion; if you lent the dustpan you must find it and take up yourdirt, for I have more to do than you. It is Number 8, and you can tellit when you look at it."