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"Here, you girls," she said, "every one of you go home and get your mother." Delightedly the girls obeyed, and the mothers came, a little backward, some of them, a little shy, pathetically eager, and decidedly breathless. Migwan's mother, Mrs. Gardiner, had known Mrs. Brewster in her girlhood, and Nakwisi's mother had known Mrs. Evans, and Chapa's and Medmangi's mothers had known each other.
"They make me feel so small." "I should think that anything that made you feel small would " Gladys again interrupted the flow of Chapa's wit, directed this time against Hinpoha's bulk. "I'm going to bed," she announced.
Bob was nearly barking his head off at the shouting boys, and about drove the girls frantic with his noise. Gladys's hands were shaking as she held on to the steering-wheel, while Hinpoha vainly tried to silence him. Chapa dared Medmangi to reach out her hand and touch the elephant's trunk and she did so. The elephant sneezed a sneeze that nearly unseated his rider and blew Chapa's hat off.
"It must have been the apples, because on an ordinary diet you never say anything bright." "Is that so?" said Hinpoha. "Look at the stars," said Gladys hastily, "aren't they brilliant to- night?" "Almost as brilliant as Hin " began Chapa. "If we sit up late enough," said Gladys, cutting in on Chapa's remark, "we may see some of the winter stars. I actually believe there's Orion now."
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