rly decorated, and last, Lina, herself, was
tastefully arrayed by the combined efforts of the other three.

At last all was in readiness.

Billy, regardless of consequences, had pinned his aunt's newest grey
blanket around him and was viewing, with satisfied admiration, its long
length trailing on the-grass behind him; Lina had her mother's treasured
Navajo blanket draped around her graceful little figure; Frances, after
pulling the covers off of several beds and finding nothing to suit her
fanciful taste, had snatched a gorgeous silk afghan from the leather
couch in the library. It was an expensive affair of intricate pattern,
delicate stitches; and beautiful embroidery with a purple velvet border
and a yellow satin lining. She had dragged one corner of it through the
mud puddle and torn a big rent in another place.

Jimmy was glorious in a bright red blanket, carrying his little bow and
arrow.

"I'm going to be the Injun chief," he boasted.

"I'm going to be a Injun chief, too," parroted Frances.

"Chief, nothing!" he sneered, "you all time trying to be a Injun chief.
You 'bout the pompousest little girl they is. You can't be a chief
nohow; you got to be a squash, Injun ladies 'r' name' squashes; me an'
Billy's the chiefs. I'm name' old Setting Bull, hi'self."

"You can't be named 'Bull,' Jimmy," reproved Lina, "it isn't genteel to
say 'bull' before people."

"Yes, I am too," he contended. "Setting Bull's the biggest chief they is
and I'm going to be name' him."

"Well, I am not going to play then," said Lina primly, "my mother wants
me to be genteel, and 'bull' is not genteel."

"I tell you what, Jimmy," proposed Frances, "you be name' 'Setting Cow.
'Cow' is genteel 'cause folks milk 'em."

"Naw, I ain't going to be name' no cow, neither," retorted the little
Indian, "you all time trying to 'suade somebody to be name' 'Setting
Cow'."

"He can't be name' a cow,"--Billy now entered into the
discussion--"'cause he ain't no girl. Why don' you be name' 'Settin'
Steer'? Is 'steer' genteel, Lina?" he anxiously inquired.

"Yes, he can be named 'Sitting Steer'," she granted. Jimmy agreeing to
the compromise, peace was once more restored.

"Frances and Lina got to be the squashes," he began.

"It isn't 'squashes,' it is 'squaws,"' corrected Lina.

"Yes, 'tis squashes too," persisted Jimmy, "'cause it's in the Bible
and Miss Cecilia 'splained it to me and she's 'bout the high-steppingest
'splainer they is. M