"0f course, I made the somewhat giganticgest kind of tracks on Cordelia RunningBird's wet floor," exclaimed the largest girl; "but if we walk tiptoe all theother girls will laugh and say, 'See how she nips along. She tries towalk so nice, just like the teachers.' And if we are walking on ourheels they say, 'Very awkward; hear her tramp just like a steer.' Butit is not kind to walk whole-feet."

The race mood was upon the wane, and Jane Straight Tree was quicklosing influence.