"The girls were fairly mean to walk whole-feet where she was scrubbing,"said the playroom girl, who knew from sorrowful experience what Cordelia'strials must have been. "It makes me fairly cross because the little girlswill not stay out or, sit still on the benches when I scrub theplayroom, and they do not make huge tracks, if they do walk whole-feet."

"You can speak to her, because she could not call you shovel-feeted, forthe black mother lets you always wear the mission shoes," exclaimed JaneStraight Tree, growing bold again.