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The dreadful regent's examination was to come the next week, and Peggy wanted to study for it. She had once thought of asking Arna to help her, but Arna seemed so tired. In the afternoon Esther came to see her chum, and to take her home with her to spend the night.
She was helping Arna take off her things, was carrying her bag upstairs would have carried Hazen's heavy grip, too, only her father took it from her. "Set the kettle to boil, Peggy," directed her mother; "then run upstairs and see if Arna wants anything. We'll wait supper till the rest come."
You'll wake Aunt Arna, and she's tired after being all day on the chou-chou cars." "Merry Ch'is'mus, Aunty Arna!" shouted the irrepressible Minna. "Oh, darling, be quiet! We'll play little pig goes to market. I'll tell you a story, only be quiet a little while." It took Peggy's utmost effort to keep the little wriggler still for the hour from five to six.
All "the children" little Peggy and her mother always spoke of the grown-up ones as "the children" were coming home. Mabel was coming from Ohio with her big husband and her two babies, Minna and little Robin, the year-old grandson whom the home family had never seen; Hazen was coming all the way from the Johns Hopkins Medical School, and Arna was coming home from her teaching in New York.
Then she undressed Peggy and put her to bed as if she had been a baby, and sat by, smoothing her hair, until she fell asleep. It seemed to Peggy that she had slept a long, long time. The sun was shining bright. Her door opened a crack and Arna peeped in, and seeing her awake, came to the bed and kissed her good morning. "I'm so sorry, little sister!" she said.
The Manilla buffalo is a smaller variety or species of the arna, inhabiting, as its name imports, the Philippine Islands. The African buffalo, sometimes known as the Kaffir buffalo, is another of these great oxen, and not the least celebrated of the tribe. It is an inhabitant of Africa, and is found chiefly in the southern half of that continent, from the Cape of Good Hope northwards.
Outside the sleigh-bells sounded enticing. It was the first sleighing of the season. Mabel and Ben had been off for a ride, and Arna and Hazen, too. How Peggy longed to be skimming over the snow instead of polishing knives all alone in the kitchen. Sue Cummings came that afternoon to invite Peggy to her party, given in Esther's honour.
Arna moved quietly about, accomplishing wonders. "But aren't you tired, Arna?" queried Peggy. "Not a bit of it, and I'll have time to help you with your Cæsar before " "Before what?" asked Peggy, but got no answer. They had been translating famously, when, in the late afternoon, there came a ring of the doorbell. Peggy found Hazen bowing low, and craving "Mistress Peggy's company."
Two of the better known authors who were helped by the Project were Arna Bontemps and Richard Wright. Wright's novel "Native Son" was widely acclaimed. In it, he depicted the inner anger and hatred felt by many young Negro men as dominating characteristics of the hero's personality; eventually, his life was destroyed.
But the Indian buffalo has no such protuberance; nor yet the African species. The Indian animal is found both in a domesticated and wild state; but both are clearly of the same species. The wild one is called the Arna, and the tame one Bhainsa, in the language of the natives. The former is of much greater size than the latter standing, when full-grown, as high as the tallest man!
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