"Did you get lost yesterday?" asked Nelson. "When did you get home?
We only had one session in school."
Nelson went to the public school and he had to go to school in the
afternoon unless the principal decided to have only one session, as he
often did when it stormed.
"Are you going to Oliver's party?" said Ruth. "We are. What are you
going to take him?"
Sunny Boy could tell Nelson all about getting lost and when he came
home, and he could explain to Ruth that he was going to Oliver's party.
But he could not tell her what birthday gift he meant to take Oliver,
because he hadn't thought about it.
He asked Mother, after Nelson and Ruth had gone home, and she said they
would go down town some afternoon before the party and find something
nice.
The telephone man came to fix the wires that afternoon, and when Daddy
Horton came home to dinner he said that much of the snow had been
cleared away in the streets.
The next morning Sunny Boy started off to school and Daddy walked with
him up to the steps, as he had done the snowy morning. It was very
cold, but all the walks were clear and the great high walls of snow
that had been piled up along the pavements made fine places for jumping
boys. Sunny Boy tried several himself, and Daddy had to remind him
that it was a quarter to nine, or he might have been late for school.
Every one talked about the blizzard in school. All the children wanted
to hear from those who had been lost, and Sunny Boy and Jimmie and
Perry and Carleton and the three little girls were kept busy answering
questions.
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