I never saw anything so funny!" and
Perry rolled over on the rug and began to laugh again.
All the children were laughing, and pretty Mrs. Dunlap had tears in her
eyes because she had laughed so much. Only Jerry Mullet looked cross.
"I hope I didn't hurt you," Sunny Boy said to him. "I didn't mean to
stick a pin into you."
Before Jerry could do more than scowl, Perry sat up on the floor wiping
his eyes.
"What I want to know--" he said, "is Jerry a donkey?" And then he
began to laugh again, and this time the children shouted with him.
They thought this was the funniest question, and they laughed and
laughed and kept saying to each other: "Is Jerry a donkey, because
Sunny Boy pinned the donkey's tail on him? Is Jerry a donkey?"
"I'll show you whether I'm a donkey or not," growled Jerry, frowning at
them all. "I'll show you! I won't stay at your old party!"
And he dashed upstairs and into Oliver's room where his hat and coat
were. Downstairs he came flying, and never stopped in the parlor to
tell Mrs. Dunlap he was going or to say that he had had a pleasant
time. No! Instead, Jerry opened the front door and banged it after
him with a crash that shook the house.
"He's gone!" said Sunny Boy, dismayed. "He's mad!"
"I'm afraid he is," admitted Mrs. Dunlap. "And I'm sorry. He didn't
have his ice-cream."
"He didn't like it 'cause I pinned the donkey's tail on him," said
Sunny Boy sorrowfully.
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