So the entry was made in the Tally Book directly after the note reading: “Nita will find new folk songs for a dance before next Council.”
It read: “Begin some object in carpentry using own designs and material, suitable to claim a coup with all provisions met.”
“Now that that is off our minds let’s have Miss Miller tell us an Indian myth or story. We haven’t heard one since that last week on the farm,” petitioned Jane.
“And I happen to know that she received a package of books from the Smithsonian Institution at Washington,” added Zan.
“How! How!” chorused the other girls, so the Guide felt called upon to contribute her share to the Council meeting.
“I really had planned something so different from this, that I must have a moment in which to think,” murmured the Guide.
“Oh dear me! That’s always the way with us! We are so impatient to make Miss Miller work for her honourable position, that we generally manage to ‘cut off our noses to spite our faces,’“ sighed Elena so plaintively that the others laughed.’”
“My original idea will not spoil by delay, so I will tell the story now which is really much easier than the work I planned,” rejoined Miss Miller.
“Well, at least tell us what your plan was and let us judge of its merits,” declared Zan, coaxingly.
“I never satisfy idle curiosity if I recognise it, but I will tell you a story of what happened to some Eskimo Indian children who indulged in this undesirable inclination to their undoing.