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as Postscript was in Gee Gee's class one day this week."

"Who's 'Postscript'?" demanded Lance. "That's a new one on me."

"Why," said Bobby, her black eyes twinkling, 'I mean Adeline Moore. That's a postscript, isn't it?"

"What happened to Addie?" asked Jess, as the others laughed.

"Why, she got befuddled in reciting something about an Indian uprising that came in our American History hour. It's all review stuff, you know.

"'What is it that you call an Indian woman, Adeline?' Gee Gee asked, real sharp.

"And Addie jumped, and stammered, and finally said:

"'A squaw, please, Miss Carrington.'

"'And what do you call her baby, then?' snapped Gee Gee.

"'A—a squawker,' says Addie, and the poor thing got a black mark for it. Wasn't that mean?"

"Miss Grace G. Carrington was in one of her moods," observed Chet, when the laugh had subsided.

"She's subject to moods," Lance drawled.

"No, she's not!" cried Bobby Hargrew.