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While the Striped Beetle was holding up its poor cut front shoes for the man to take off the girls strolled over to the pump for a drink. A tired-looking woman, holding a fretful baby in her arms, came to the door and asked the girls to come up on the porch and sit down until the exchange of tires was made. Medmangi promptly offered to hold the baby while the woman finished her work.
"Don't look at it squarely, it'll bring you bad luck," said Chapa. "I'm not looking at it," said Hinpoha, "it's looking at me." "Where does the man in the moon go when it turns into a sickle?" asked Medmangi. "That doesn't worry me half so much as where Pearl went with my silver mesh bag," said Gladys.
After they had been traveling awhile she leaned back against the seat and looked so white and faint that the girls became alarmed. "Do you feel ill?" asked Medmangi, feeling her pulse with a practised hand. Medmangi is going to be a doctor and is in her element when she has a patient to attend to. Pearl opened her big blue eyes languidly. "I just got light-headed," she said, in a weak voice.
Nakwisi jumped with joy when they told her; she, too, had been sighing for some place to go. Veronica and Medmangi, however, had their summer plans already made. "My, won't the Sandwiches envy us," said Sahwah that night, as they all met at Gladys's house to talk over their plans more fully. "I wonder " began Mrs. Evans.
"Well, there's one thing about it," said Hinpoha, who was far more philosophical than the rest, "if we have to stay prisoners here we might as well get busy and help Mrs. Martin. It's no fun to have five people quartered on you when there are two sick children in the house." Medmangi was already in the sick room giving medicine and drinks of water in an accomplished manner.
"What family do apples belong to, anyway?" asked Gladys idly, seeing it was time to turn Medmangi aside from preaching to Hinpoha. "Not my family," said Chapa, "we're all peaches." "Forget-me-not family," said Hinpoha, with another groan. They ate more apples for breakfast, except Hinpoha, who pretended not to see when they offered them to her.
"Run down to the corner and see what is keeping them," said Gladys to Chapa and Medmangi. The two girls got out and retraced their steps. But nowhere did they see the Glow-worm. Puzzled, they returned to Gladys and she promptly turned the Striped Beetle around and drove back through the streets the way she had come. The Glow-worm had apparently vanished off the face of the earth.
"Tents," said Migwan, with a reminiscent sigh. "Umbrellas," said Sahwah. Mrs. Evans fell down on "V." "Varnish," said Chapa. "W" was too much for Medmangi. "Wire," said Nyoda. "X," said Sahwah, "there is no such thing. Oh, yes, there is, too; Xylophones, they're made here." Gladys and Migwan met their Waterloo on "Y." "Yeast," said Nyoda.
The girls laughed at the witty application, but she was ruled out nevertheless. "Nails," said Mrs. Evans. "Oil," said Nakwisi. "Paint," said Chapa. Medmangi sat down. Nyoda began to count. "Quadrupeds!" cried Medmangi hastily. "Explain yourself," said Nyoda. The girls shouted in derision, but Nyoda ruled the answer in, and the game proceeded. "Refrigerators," said Nyoda. "Salt," said Gladys.
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.
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