She was delighted and put it right on. Sunny
Boy's prize was a gray donkey whose head came off and whose body was
filled with small gumdrops. He thought it was a very nice prize.
They had a beautiful time at the supper table, and poor Jerry was
hardly missed. They had chicken sandwiches and cocoa with whipped
cream. Then came vanilla and chocolate ice cream. And there was a
large slice of the white-frosted birthday cake, which Oliver himself
cut, for each child.
After supper they played a few more games, and then it was time to go
home. Mrs. Dunlap was almost smothered by the little girls who all
tried to kiss her at once and tell her they had had the nicest time at
Oliver's party. Nearly every one said-good-bye to Oliver and his
mother and started down the steps at the same time.
At the first corner every one but the Baker children and Sunny Boy went
a different way. They could walk home together, and that was why Mrs.
Horton had said that Harriet need not come for Sunny Boy.
As they were passing a house some one tapped on the window. Nelson and
Ruth's aunt lived there, and she had been waiting to see them pass.
"Your mother telephoned me you went to Oliver Dunlap's party and would
go by our house on your way home," said Aunt Edith, coming out on the
steps, with a coat thrown over her shoulders. "I asked her to let you
stay and visit us till eight o'clock this evening. Then I'll take you
home.
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