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have the lad of that"

This was true The second year of their stay in Angel Island, the other

four women had rebuked Clara for this tendency to keep

"It is not necessary for us to think," said Peachy with a sudden,

spirited lift of her head froht back

some of her old-tiy

hair seemed to rise a little from her forehead And under her draperies

that which res stirred faintly "They

must think just as they must walk because they are earth-creatures They

cannot exist without infinite care and labor We don't have to think any

more than we have to walk; for we are air-creatures And air-creatures

only fly and feel We are superior to theh so held quiescent within her, had burst its way to expression It rang

like a bugle It vibrated like a violin-string "That is the mistake

we've made all our lives; a mistake that has held us here tied to this

camp for or four our years;the idea that we are superior in soood than they But think a moment!

Are we? True, we are as you say, creatures of the air True, ere

born ings But didn't we have to come down to the earth to eat and

sleep, to love, to ? Our trouble is that - "