Then she began with the wide white ribbon that was to trim a new frock for herself, bound it three times around the high waist effect she had managed, tied the ends in a knot and let them fall to the floor in a beautiful sash.
"I want four white roses, each with two or three leaves," she cried.
Anna ran to bring them, while the Bird Woman added pins.
"Elnora," she said, "forgive me, but tell me truly.

Is your mother so poor as to make this necessary ?" "No," answered Elnora.

"Next year I am heir to my share of over three hundred acres of land covered with almost as valuable timber as was in the Limberlost.

We adjoin it.

There could be thirty oil wells drilled that would yield to us the thousands our neighbours are draining from under us, and the bare land is worth over one hundred dollars an acre for farming.