"Ee!" cried one, "we hate the ugly government shoes, of course, and wishthat we could wear the nice shoes from our mission boxes every day. Butwe cannot, only Sundays--and we have to change them after Sunday-school--and when we wear our best clothes for white visitors. Cordelia RunningBird will not wear the government shoes because her portlyher is an agencypoliceman, and can buy store shoes for every day."

"I sometimes was always much ashamed of my big feet, and now I am more ashamed,"complained the largest girl. "If the dormitory girls are shovel-feeted,every large girl in this school is shovel-feeted."