"How many have you
won?"
"That dependth. I gueth I've won a whole thtring of them. I did thomething
that no other girl in the camp can do."
"You did!" exclaimed Cora. "I should like to know what!"
"You ought to know. I flew. Didn't you thee me hanging in the air from the
tree latht night! No, of courthe you didn't. I had flown down before you
got there and I couldn't fly up again."
"Tommy, it's bedtime," reminded Harriet.
"Yeth. I've got to thay what ith in my mind firtht. How long have you been
here!"
"Since the first of June," answered Cora impatiently. "Don't ask so many
questions."
"How am I going to know thingth if I don't athk?" demanded Grace.
"What you don't know won't hurt you," interjected Patricia.
"Oh, yeth it will. You don't know how it will pain me. I jutht have to
know thingth. I have to know thomething about everything."
"And nothing about something," suggested Cora sarcastically.
"Now, Tommy, don't you see that the girls do not wish to talk to you?
Don't intrude," remonstrated Harriet.
"Thank you," mocked Cora. "I am glad you have found your tongue at last. I
had begun to think that you said all you had to say at the Council Fire
this evening."
"No, not all," answered Harriet significantly. The two girls gave her a
quick, sharp look.
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