Shelterwood

Olive is pleased with the 25 cents she earned from the women’s club. She is eager to deliver the money, as well as some food from the picnic, to Tula, Nessa, Pinti, and Koi. When Olive arrives at their meeting spot, she is frustrated to also find Dewey and Amos there. Tula and Nessa play along with one of Dewey’s jokes and scare Olive as she heads toward the meeting spot. The mean-spirited trick hurts her feelings, and she is upset that Tula and Nessa joined the boys in making fun of her. The joke reminds her of the way Tesco Peele finds humor in embarrassing other people. Olive is also upset to hear that Dewey had a role in spooking the horse that pulls the women’s club library wagon, causing an accident that was the talk of the town. 

Olive tries to exclude Dewey while she makes plans to leave town with Tula and Nessa the next day, but Dewey and Amos soon catch on. Olive argues that living in the mountains would be better than Dewey’s plan to live at the edge of town and steal to survive. She argues that stealing is wrong and that they should seek out justice from law enforcement and the courts if they have been mistreated.