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.
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