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Updated: June 7, 2025
"He could act as chauffeur," replied Gladys, "and supply the modern flavor." "This is Friday, too," remarked Medmangi. "That's why the car won't start," said Hinpoha, "it won't start anything on Friday." "Couldn't we dig for oil?" suggested Chapa. "We're in the oil belt. There must be all kinds of gasoline in the earth under our very feet, and we languishing on top of it!
Gladys and Chapa and Medmangi decided that they too would like a stroll beside the river, after sitting in the car so long. Pearl did not care to get out; she offered to stay in the car and hold the purses of the other girls until they returned.
"And let the two that hold out the longest have the first ride in the canoe," suggested Sahwah. The game started. Nyoda had the first chance. "Automobiles," she began. "Bricks," said Gladys. "Clothing," said Migwan. "Drugs," said Sahwah. "Engines," said Hinpoha. "Flour," said Mrs. Evans. "Gasoline," said Nakwisi. "Hardware," said Chapa. "Iron," said Medmangi.
Medmangi explored for pins with a skilled hand but there was nothing sticking into him. Neither did he appear to be teething. "There's something the matter with this baby," she said to the mother, when next she came to the door. "Hadn't you better have a doctor?" The woman came out on the porch and looked down at the child in a worried way.
Scarlet fever! The girls looked at each other in dismay. Not one of them had had it. And they had all handled both the babies; Medmangi had hung over the little boy most of the time. "If we have ourselves disinfected," said Medmangi, as they moved hastily toward the car, "there won't be much danger of our getting it. Scarlet fever isn't really contagious in the first stages."
One minute you're en route and the next minute you're rooted, if the reader will forgive a very lame pun. There was not a house in sight nor a telephone wire. The dust in the road was three inches deep and the temperature must have been close to a hundred. They were at least five miles from the nearest town. Chapa looked at Medmangi, Medmangi looked at Hinpoha, and Hinpoha looked at Gladys.
Her appearance seemed to create a profound sensation with Gladys and Hinpoha and Chapa and Medmangi; they all uttered an exclamation at once and started forward. The one in blue looked at them and then burst into a mocking laugh. The four unknown girls dressed like us and the other one in blue seemed to be good friends of hers for they hailed each other familiarly.
Once inside, we blinked around with greater wonder than we had at anything which had happened so far. Against the wall were standing in a row: Gladys, Chapa, Medmangi, Hinpoha, Sahwah between a strange man and woman, four young women we had never seen before but who wore suits and veils exactly like ours, and a girl in a blue suit.
Without warning the elephant directly behind them thrust his trunk into the car and picked up Medmangi's camera, to the immense delight of the crowd on the sidewalk. After much prodding from his rider he released it again, dropping it safely into Medmangi's lap. All the rest of the ride Medmangi kept her head over her shoulder so she could watch what the beast was doing.
Sahwah was tatting, Gladys and Migwan were embroidering, and Miss Kent, familiarly known as "Nyoda," the Guardian of the Winnebago group, was "mending her hole-proof hose," as she laughingly expressed it. The three more quiet girls in the circle, Nakwisi the Star Maiden, Chapa the Chipmunk, and Medmangi the Medicine Man Girl, were working out their various symbols in crochet patterns.
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