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You will be cooler there , and these stockings can wait . '' `` I think that it is a great mistake to mend stockings at all in weather like this , for holes are much cooler than little lumps of darning cotton , '' remarked Sylvia . `` I do n't see the use of wearing them at all . I am comfortable enough with bare feet in my shoes , and so would you be if only you were used to it , '' said Rumple , coming up with a sackful of grass for Rocky 's midday feed on his back . The younger boys took it in turns to provide Rocky 's luncheon , and to-day was Rumple 's turn . `` Sylvia and I are not boys , you see , and so the same rules do not apply to us , for girls always have to observe the conventions , '' said Nealie , with the prim little air which she sometimes put on for the sake of her juniors . `` What are they ? ''