"And I shall not help her make the little yellow dress, as she will bewanting me next month," resolved a south dormitory bed girl, Emma TwoBears, who was standing in the doorway. Emma was the most experienceddressmaker of the large girls' class and was generous, as a rule, inhelping younger girls. "I am sorry now that I cut and made the littleblack waist, but I did not think she would so soon be wishing me acripple."

"And you need not praise the little black and white dresses if she getsthem done; but I am sure she cannot," gloried Hannah Straight Tree.