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"Oo-oo!" Evadna stared at the place where they were not "Wild Indians--I thought the boys were just teasing when they said so--and it's really true, Aunt Phoebe?"

"They're no wilder than you are," Phoebe retorted impatiently

"Oh, they ARE wild They're exactly like in o--you just look, and they're gone! That old fat one--did you see how she looked at ht at my hair and--"

"Well, she didn't take it with her, did she? Don't be silly I've known old Hagar ever since Wally was a baby She took hiht to her oikiup and nursed him with her own papoose for two ht and pulled rief, child! Didn't you hear me say they're old friends? I wanted you to be nice to the they won't do for you If they don't, there's nothing they WILL do You ate rose a clamor which swept nearer and nearer until the noise broke at the corner of the house like a great wave, in a tu of a fehter of the , in his ared the squaw along beside the porch, followed by the Indians and all the Hart boys, a yelling, jeering audience

"You tell her shont-isham! Ah-h--you can't break loose, you old she-wildcat Quit your biting, will you? By all the big and little spirits of your tribe, you'll wish--"

Panting, laughing, swearing also in breathless exclamations, he forced her to the top of the steps, backed recklessly down them, and cae there; and he pressed her hard against the rough ithout in the least realizing that anything was behind hi, and be quick about it!" he commanded his captive sternly "You tell Mother Hart you lied I hear she's been telling you I'm drunk, Mother Hart--didn't you, you old beldam? You say you heap sorry you all time tellum lie You say: 'Good Injun, him all time heap bueno' Say: 'Good Injun no drunk, no heap shoot, no heap yell--all time bueno' Quick, or I'll land you headfore!"