in which the cream was packed, up the back steps.

"Going to have a party?" he smiled at them as he came back to his
wagon. "Have a good time!"

The pretty little notes of invitation, which Mother Morrison had
written to six boys and six girls, friends of Brother's and
Sister's, two weeks ago, had said from "four to six," so it was
time to dress in the best white clothes soon after lunch. Indeed,
Brother's collar bow was not tied before the doorbell rang, and
Nellie Yarrow arrived.

"I suppose she lived so far away, she thought she might be late,"
said Louise.

She ran downstairs and showed Nellie where to put the present she
had brought for Brother.

After that the other boys and girls came, one by one, and Brother
soon had a little pile of presents on the living-room table. He
opened each one, and said thank you to the child who had brought
it, and he forgot to be shy, so that he really enjoyed it all very
much.

Charlie Raynor and his sister, Winifred, were the last to come,
and Winifred was excited over something.

"I had the most awful time with Charlie!" she announced earnestly,
to sympathetic Mother Morrison. "He acted dreadful!"