"Maybe he'll have it tied in a paper," she murmured hopefully.
"Then I can't see it"





CHAPTER VI

RALPH'S PRESENT


The sun rose bright and early on Brother's birthday morning. Not
any earlier than usual, perhaps, but it certainly woke Brother a
whole half-hour earlier than he usually opened his eyes.

Almost at the same moment that his brown eyes opened wide, and he
sat up in bed, Sister's dark eyes also opened wide and she sat up
in her little white bed.

"Oh!" she said, blinking. "OH, it's your birthday, Roddy! Many
happy returns of the day--and I have a present for you!"

She slipped out of bed and ran over to the chest of white drawers
that held her own possessions.

"You can play with them a little while and then you can eat 'em,"
she explained, returning with a flat, white box which she put on
Brother's lap.