Phoebe Simms's peacocks are the only ones within miles of Onabasha, and they moult but once a year.

If your hat cost only twenty dollars, it's scarcely good enough for those quills.

You see, the Almighty made and coloured those Himself; and He puts the same kind on Phoebe Simms's peacocks that He put on the head of the family in the forests of Ceylon, away back in the beginning.

Any old manufactured quill from New York or Chicago will do for your little twenty-dollar hat.

You should have something infinitely better than that to be worthy of quills that are made by the Creator." How those girls did laugh! One of them walked with Elnora to the auditorium, sat beside her during exercises, and tried to talk whenever she dared, to keep Elnora from seeing the curious and admiring looks bent upon her.
For the brown-eyed boy whistled, and there was pantomime of all sorts going on behind Elnora's back that day.