"But Lucinda cannot come to school if Dolly cannot, and she feels so
sad. If Dolly's father saw her looking very pretty in a red dress and a
brown shoes and stockings, just like he would feel so happier he would
let her come to school. Then Lucinda would be glad, and she would learn
the neat way, and they would grow Dolly more white-minded. The verse I
read yesterday was a King's Daughters' verse. Helen marked it--Annie,
too.
"What if Annie should be looking down from up there,"--pointing to a
newly glimmering star--"and speaking just like this: 'Dear Cordelia,
these words I tell you--" It is more blessed to give than to receive."
I would give the red dress and the brown shoes and stockings to the
little girl named Dolly Straight Tree.'"
Cordelia looked another minute at the star.
"Of course Annie cannot speak those words up there, but she would like
to have me do it, and my father and my mother would not care, for I
should tell them just like Annie thought I ought to; and they always let
me do a thing I want to, anyhow.
"If an Indian likes another Indian very much he will give him a big
present. My father told an Indian man one time, 'I am your friend, so I
shall give you a pony.' And he did. And the Indian man told my father,
'I am your friend, so I shall give you a steer.
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