All she would consent to take from me was a dollar, and she said that, if I would come to her twice a week regularly, she would promise that, in a few weeks, I could see the birds as well as she could.

But I didn't tell you--what the medium said of even greater importance was that the explanation was that some of my ancestors, far back in the dim shadows of the early hours of the world, were birds of the air.

Just think of it, girls! Birds! Flying through the air and--" "Darting yon and hither," finished Hippy.
"_Alors!_ Let's fly," cried Elfreda Briggs amid a shout of laughter from the Overland Riders.
"So say we all of us," answered Grace, springing up and beginning to pack away her mess kit.

"It will be long after dark before we reach Bisbee's Corners." The girls were still laughing as they rode away, Emma Dean silently resentful, her chin in the air, her face flushed.
"Do you really think she is in earnest about that nature stuff ?" questioned Anne.
"She thinks she is, but of course she isn't.

Emma, like many others, must have a hobby to ride.