The party was to be from two to five o'clock, and Sunny Boy, in his
best white flannel suit, and carrying Oliver's present under his arm,
started about quarter of two for the birthday boy's house.
At the same time the door of the Bakers' house opened.
"Going to the party?" called Nelson, running down the steps of his
house, followed by Ruth. "What did you get for Oliver?"
Sunny Boy told him. Nelson said he had a story book to give Oliver.
Ruth had a little silver pencil, she said. Sunny Boy thought that Ruth
looked very pretty, dressed all in white from her white rubbers to her
white fur hat. She didn't complain about her feet being cold, either.
But that may have been because Oliver did not live very far away.
There were about twenty children at the party, when all the guests had
arrived. Mrs. Dunlap and Oliver shook hands with each, and the boys
put their hats and coats in Oliver's room while the little girls put
theirs in his mother's. Sunny Boy knew nearly all the children except
one, a boy who seemed older than any of the others and who, whenever he
had a chance, teased the girls by pulling their hair-ribbons or putting
out his foot to trip them as they went past him in the games.
"That's Jerry Mullet," whispered Oliver to Sunny Boy. "He's a cousin
of Perry Phelps'. I didn't know he was visiting Perry when I sent the
invitations, but Mrs. Phelps called up Mother and asked if Jerry
couldn't come to the party.
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