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A GIRLISH FIGURE SWUNG DOWN OUT OF THE OLD APPLE-TREE AND DROPPED LIGHTLY UPON ITS FEET PAGE 16

HE WAS QUIET, EVEN FOR AN INDIAN BABY; UNNATURALLY QUIET, SHE THOUGHT " 88

"I WAS ONLY DIGGING MEDICINE," THE ELF SOBERLY ANNOUNCED " 209

YELLOW STAR

YELLOW STAR

LAUREL FOLKS

It was four o'clock of a hot September afternoon, and the buzz of twenty girls released from school filled the close room with a sibilant overflow, much like the gossip of bees in a blossoming elder-bush. The boys had already gone clattering down the stairs to the ball-field, and the little maids of the highest grammar grade demurely prepared to follow, sipping the sweets of freedom with more of leisurely enjoyment, in true feminine fashion.

A long, thin girl of thirteen or so, in a starched blue gingham frock nearly to her sharp knees, who looked somehow as if blown straight forward by a strong wind, and a plump bud of a fair-haired damsel in pink, stood close together in an eddy of the murmuring stream.

"I don't think it's fair, Doris; no, I don't!" were the long girl's first words earnestly spoken, as she tossed the lank locks back from her eager face with a characteristic gesture.

"Don't think what's fair?" queried Doris, serenely. "Oh, Sin, you've dropped your glasses!"

"Bother the glasses--you know what I mean. That wild Indian girl from the 'land of the Ojibways,' or wherever it is they say she's coming to our school, and the girls will make her life one long misery, just because she wears a red blanket, prob'ly, and a feather or two in her straight, black hair--"

"You don't know what you're talking about, Sin Parker. She never wore a blanket in her life, so there!"

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