Sister Mary Felice said: "I thank you, Sister Angela."
Then Sister Mary Felice took one to try.
Then always Sister Angela, with the Indian basket on her arm, took all the little girls to the long back gallery that was latticed in.
On a low shelf close against the lattice sat a row of white basins.
Then all the little tiny girls washed their little tiny hands in the white basins. And while they washed their little tiny hands by twos and by threes together, two little girls washing their hands in one basin together, three little girls washing their hands together, they all oftentimes laughed together and said:
"Wash together!
And be friends forever!
Wash together!
And be friends forever!"
Then Sister Angela held a long pink checked towel in her hands while the little tiny girls came as their tiny hands were washed and wiped them on the pink checked towel.
Then if two little girls took hold of the pink checked towel at once they both laughed and sang:
"Don't wipe together,
Or we'll fight
Before night."
And the other little girls that were still washing their hands in the white basins on the low shelf by the back-gallery lattice sang over and over again: