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Dolly swept Mostyn's expectant face with a startled look and then fixed her eyes on the speaker

"It is this way, Mrs Tiested the subject, and--"

"That ain't what I axed you," the woit out an' walk the balance o' the way afoot That ain't what I axed you, Dolly Drake I want to kno an' here if you are goin' to teach ot up by bold-faced Yankee women with no more housework to do, or children to raise, than they have up thar these days I want to know, I say, for if you are I'll keep hest respect for you, an' I've cheered an' stomped my feet every time you oin' to make you put on pants an'--"

"Git up!" The driver hipping his horse "Don't pay no attention to 'er, Miss Dolly," he called back over his shoulder "She's been jowerin' ever since she stepped out o' bed this mornin' If she had a chance to vote she'd stuff the ballot-box with rotten eggs if the 'lection didn't go her way"

"You see that?" Dolly sighed, as the buggy vanished in the glooht to be ashaet up a joke like this"

"Why don't you throw it over and be done with it?" Mostyn asked, sympathetically

"Because I'," Dolly returned "I'd rather drop dead in my tracks here in this sand than to have those devilish boys beatto say"

"I'hed, "and to saveit"

"I e could walk through the woods the rest of the way," the girl said "We'll meet another spitfire in a minute, and then I will lose patience"

They were soon in sight of the four lighted s of the schoolhouse "Packed like sardines," Dolly muttered "Who knows? They ainst ht Do you knohen I'm bothered like this I can actually feel the roots ofto stand up, like the bristles on a pig The wohborhood have been my best friends till now, and if I can't think of some way to stir up their sympathy I shall be down and out"