"I cannot keep them up, they come again so fast," she murmublack toherself in grim despair, while wringing out her mop-rag to attack a lineof tracks imprinted by the largest girl in school, in going to and fromthe laundry to dispose of laid-off sheets and pillow-cases. "_Ver-ryhor-r-i-d_ pictures of the repulsive issue shoes. I will not wear them. Iam wearing kid store shoes my father buys for every day. The dormitorygirls are shovel-feeted, and I Wish they could not walk one step--onlylie in bed!"

She always was overheard by Jane Straight Tree, coming up the girls' stairsat that moment. Jane's own work had been done with little difficulty,and she had obtained permission to help the middle dormitory girls, forreasons all her own.