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The seats were upholstered in dark blue rep and there was plenty of room for the Blossom family and for guests, when they had them. "May I ride with you, Daddy?" asked Meg. "It's my turn," insisted Twaddles. "Isn't it, Daddy?" "That was the old car," said Bobby. "This is beginning all over. Isn't it, Daddy? Meg and I should ride in the front seat first, 'cause we're the oldest."
It was supper time before the children realized it and then, in a little while, it was dark. "Dark enough for fireworks?" said Twaddles for the twentieth time, and he bounced with delight when Father Blossom said: "Dark enough to begin, I think." Mother Blossom and the children and Captain Jenks sat on the steps of the bungalow while Father Blossom and Jud set off the fireworks.
"Meg and Bobby went home at least half an hour ago," he said kindly. "We came for my grasshopper," explained Twaddles, and that brought out the whole story. "Dot," remarked Twaddles thoughtfully when they were walking home, "it wouldn't be so bad being bad if you didn't have to tell about it, would it?" Dot understood at once. "N o," she drawled slowly. "But we'd feel worse if we never did tell."
"Dot and Twaddles," Father Blossom informed her proudly. "But wait till you see the next." "A Day at the Zoo" came next, and Aunt Polly had planned this to give each child a chance to play. There were six animals on the stage five besides the cinnamon bear that was Dot and Twaddles a lion, a tiger, a polar bear, a great flapping seal, and a zebra.
"All right, if that's the way you feel about it, I'll give you something to be mad about." Dot was furious, but, though she struggled and squirmed, she could not get free. "Now you'll be good," said Bobby, giving her a sounding kiss as he let her go, for he was very fond of his headstrong little sister. "Want your face washed, Twaddles?"
To be sure, the dust and dirt and screws and rusty bolts and little pieces of paper were pretty thoroughly scattered about the hall and on the stairs, but Twaddles and Dot worked like beavers to pick them up. And Norah was so glad that Twaddles had not tumbled with the basket that she did not grumble at having to brush the stairs down for the second time that day.
And, as your grandmother used to say, 'behave as well as you look." Meg wore a white dress with blue sash and hair-ribbons, and Dot was all in pink dress, ribbons and socks. "I hope," remarked Twaddles, as they started for Marion's house, "that the ice-cream will be chocolate."
Thus admonished, Dot put both her hands in and brought up a quantity of old papers mixed with bits of string, little ends of sealing wax and many other things she would have liked to stop and examine if Twaddles had not been the foreman.
"I'll get it," shouted the solitary walker, who had turned on hearing the car and now ran back toward the Blossoms. He was a pleasant-faced man, rather shabbily dressed, with a soft felt hat pulled well down over honest gray eyes. He handed the cage up to Twaddles smiling and revealing a set of square, even white teeth. Father Blossom started as the light fell clearly across the man's face.
They knew no one at home would be worried, though Dot had slept two hours, because they were not expected back till the afternoon boat. "We had cocoa and jelly sandwiches while you were asleep," Twaddles informed his sister. "And Mrs. Clayton has a ship carved out of a piece of bone!" At the wharf they found Mr.
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