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we wouldn't be. They make fun of dolls. They'll take the swing away from us." There spoke a bitter knowl edge. "Tell them to go away, Mother."

Watching the crestfallen boys, Alice softened some what.

"If you boys and girls could manage to play together without quarreling," she began—but Sara cut her short.

"We can't! How can we? They knock us around—they want everything."

With this brief comprehensive word she returned to her playmates, and Alice went into the house, realizing that Sara had attained what women the world over ap parently are striving to attain—spiritual independence and the means of being self-supporting.