rd to get much done unless you're in the right condition
to do it. You know when an athlete is going to run in a long race, he
doesn't just go out and run. He trains for it a long time before he is
to run, and gets his body in fine condition. And it's the same with a
man who has some mental task. If he has to pass an examination, for
instance, he studies and prepares his mind. That's what we have to do;
prepare our minds and bodies. In the city, in the winter, we will take
up a lot of these things. I'm just mentioning them to you now so that
you can think about them and won't be surprised when we start to go
into them seriously."

"I know something I've thought about myself," said Dolly, eagerly. "In
some of the stores at home they have seats so that the girls can sit
down when they don't have to wait on people. And in some they don't.
But in the stores where they do have them, the girls get more done, and
one of them told me once that she felt ever so much stronger and better
when the rush came in the afternoon, if she'd been able to sit down
instead of standing up all day."

"Of course. And that's a splendid idea, Dolly. Some of the stores
make the girls stand up all day long, because they think it pleases the
women who come in to shop. But if you could make those store keepers
see that they'd really get more work done by the girls if they let them
rest when the stores are empty, they'd soon provide the chairs, even if
the law didn't make them do it."

"This place looks as if pioneers might have lived here, Wanaka," said
Margery Burton.

"They passed along here once, Margery, years and years ago, but they
were going on, and they didn't stop. You see, the reason this country
has stayed so wild is that it's hard to get at. The trees haven't been
cleared away, and roads haven't been built."

"Isn't it good land? Wouldn't it pay to plough it, after the trees
were cut down?" asked Bessie King.

"It would, and it wouldn't, Bessie. It's just about the same sort of
land as in the valleys below, where there are some of the best farms in
the whole state. But we need the forests, too. You know why, don't
you?"

"No, I don't," said Bessie, after a moment's thought. "I know they're
beautiful, and that it's splendid for people to be able to come up here
and live, and camp out. But that isn't the only reason, is it?"

"No, it isn't even anywhere near the most important, Bessie. You know
what a dry summ