ever trying to build tracks into something else. Jamie wanted things as they were. This led to discord.
Alice's sense of justice made her feel that Jamie should be allowed to play as he wanted to. But she thought that Robert should let Sara into his out-of-door games. She had a theory that boys and girls play the same games if they are brought up together. For the most part Sara shared this opinion of her mother's; she shared it strongly; she shared it vociferously.
It was Robert who differed from this opinion. He was very decided in the matter. He put it this way: "Fellows don't want a girl forever tagging around and always yelling."
"I should think," said his mother, "that you would want your little sister to play with you."
Driven into a corner, Robert answered: "I want her to play with me, all right; but if she's going to play, why don't she play? She always gets hurt with the least thing and comes home bawling."
To this Alice responded: "It's her feelings that get hurt."
"I don't care what part of her gets hurt," said Robert, "if it gets hurt—and she yells, and the boys say to me, 'Oh, gee! There comes your sister again. Run!'"
"I can run just as fast as lots of you," said Sara. "I can run faster than Skinny Allen. I can run faster than Mud Morse."
"I know you can," responded her brother gloomily, "that's what makes it so fierce. We'd get away lots oftener if you couldn't."
"Lots and lots of things I can do as well as any boys," said Sara with rapidly rising temper.
"Yes, and the fellows make fun of you," he answered. "Whenever there's a bunch of boys around, what do
