are not very
cotton silk?'

"And I was very 'shamed, and said I would not take
them, I had been so mean. But Cordelia Running Bird
said I must, for she had made the red dress too short for
Susie, so if I did not it would be wasted. So I told her
I would take it if she would excuse my meanness, but I
should not take the brown shoes and stockings--only just
the black ones. But she begged so hard just like I had to.
And Cordelia and I scrubbed Dolly very hard in a tub,
for Lucinda has not learned the neat way, and she did
not cry, only laughed. And the white mother found some
very little underclothes for her, and we curled her hair
with a slate pencil, and she wore the best things and
looked so pretty. And the brown shoes were a little bit
too large, but they did not show.

"And Dolly motioned Jack Frost very cunning, and
they looked at Dolly more than Susie, but Cordelia
Running Bird did not care. And my father was so happier
he laughed and laughed when Dolly nipped her nose and
pinched her toes just right, and when the song stopped he
slapped his knees and cried very loud, he was so glad
about Dolly.

"And after the Christmas tree my father told the
teachers (and Emma Two Bears was interpreter): 'Your
school is a good place, for it makes the Indian children
very smart, and you treat the Indian visitors very kind,
so I shall let Dolly stay, and then Lucinda will stay, too.'
Very fast Lucinda stopped being sad, for she thought
before my father would not let Dolly stay till she was ten
birthdays, and Lucinda loves her so she would not stay
without her.

"And the doll they hung me on the Christmas tree was
bigger than Cordelia Running Bird's, and its hairs and
clothes were prettier, so I told Cordelia, 'I am your
friend, and I shall give you my doll.' And she did not
want to take it, but I made her. So she said, 'I am your
friend, and I shall give you my doll, but it is not so nice
as yours.'

"And Cordelia Running Bird and I now walk together
all the time, and again I shall never be mean to her. And
they did not choose Susie quite so much as Dolly in the
games, but Cordelia says that makes her glad. And it
was because she read the King's Daughters' verses.

"Now I shall put an end to this too long letter. Many
days have I been writing it, and the girls, said just like
I was writing a book. And Cordelia sends