"They should not listen. That is stealing talk, the black mother says,"replied the prudent little kid. "We like Cordelia Running Bird, forshe does not scold us little kids and tell us we are in the way, as youdo," was the bold defense. "We shall choose Susie in the games."

"If the little girls choose Susie, the large and middle-sized girls canpull their hairs when they are combing them," was the appalling threatfrom Hannah Straight Tree. "If they tell the teachers we can say theirhairs were snarly and we could not help it."