esides all the girls and the bedding and the partially painted
paddles that stood around everywhere, Nyoda brought in a large
supply of fire wood. It was all damp and had to be dried out
before it would burn. The rain whirled against the windows, as
if seeking entrance by force, but the girls inside, safe and dry,
made merry before the fire. Nyoda taught them a new game, called
"Johnny, Where Are You?" She blindfolded Hinpoha and Sahwah and
set them on the floor. Then each one in turn had to call,
"Johnny, where are you?" and upon the other one's answering,
"Here!" whacked in the direction of the voice with a rolled-up
newspaper. Both had to keep one hand on a pie-tin on the floor
between them. Sahwah and Hinpoha both gave and received some
sounding whacks, and kept the watchers in a roar of laughter with
their efforts to dodge each other. Towards the end Nyoda slipped
up and removed the bandage from Hinpoha's eyes and let her whack
Sahwah with her eyes open, and poor Sahwah wondered why she could
not dodge the attacks any better.

After supper Nyoda proposed playing "Aeroplane." She shooed all
the girls but Hinpoha out into the kitchen. One by one they were
blindfolded and led in. Sahwah was the first. She was led into
the center of the room and there brought to a halt. "Step up,"
commanded some one. Sahwah did as she was told and her feet were
planted on something that felt like a platform. "Now hang on!"
they ordered. She hung. It seemed to be hair she was hanging on
to. "Up with her!" Sahwah felt herself rising, up, up. The
hair sank out of her grasp. The board wobbled under her feet.
Straight up toward the ceiling she went, past the rafters and on
up, until her head struck the roof. The board wobbled much
worse. "Jump!" they shouted. Sahwah gathered her forces for a
mighty leap, determining to strike the floor with knees bent so
as to break the shock. She struck solid ground before she had
fairly started. The bandage was taken from her eyes. She was
standing on the floor in front of the fireplace. Beside her was
the "Aeroplane." It was a plain wooden board. When she had
stood on it they had lifted it up, and Hinpoha, whose head she
had seized upon to support herself, had gradually stooped down,
to enhance Sahwah's sensation of going up. To complete illusion
they hit her on the head with a book to make her think she had
struck the ceiling. She had risen about six inches from the
floo