"But I do not know if I can feather-stitch it now, for there is no oneto teach me, that I know of. Just like Jane Straight Tree and thedormitory girls will tell the whole school to hate me, and they will.If I cannot get a large girl to help make the black dress, and I try to doit all alone, it will fit so bad, and I cannot get it done in time.What if I should tell my mother to have Susie stay at camp, and not oncecome inside the yard Christmas time? Then she would not need thedresses, and they could not call them issue goods, and not choose Susiein the games, and shut their eyes at her."

Cordelia lay somewhat still, but the thought of Susie's missing thefestivities by staying in the big building in the mission pasture, wherethe Indian visitors camped in winter, was put from her in short order.