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STORIES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS
BY MAX TRELL "OME IN!
voice
Come in,
1 dears!” M
was saying
my
Punch's as Knari
The Surprise Party
-It's In Honor Of Somebody's Birthday-
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Everybody groaned. But just as Judy was about to pick the cake up, a Robin started sing- ing on a tree just outside the window.
Knarf ran to the window. "Robin, have you got a birth- day?" he asked.
"No." said the Robin. "Then have one today!" cried Knarf. "Today is your birthday!"
A Cat looked up. A Dog looked up. A Policeman look- ed up. A Taxicab Driver looked up. A Lady with market basket looked up.
Everyone in the room shout- But no one had a birthday. "It's a surprise party," said "I don't care whose birthday
ed: "Surprise! Surprise!" and "I'm afraid," said Judy, "that started eating General Tin. He pointed to two it is. A birthday party is fun I'll have to put the cake back cake as fast as they could.
the birthday They walked in. They were empty chairs at the end of the even when it's for nobody at in the icebox. Maybe somebody
everyone table. "Sit down there, both of all!"
The Robin got an will have a birthday tomorrow, crumb with whipped cream on sitting around the table. In you!"
and Hanid, the Shadow Chil- dren with the Turned-About Names, knocked on the play- scom door.
astonished to see
the middle of the table was a single cande buning on it.
It's
Birthday party
a
cried Knari.
birthday
"A surprise party," asked Knarf, after he and Hanid had sat down. "Who is it for?" "That's the surprise,"
•party!"
"Oh dear,” said Hamid, she looked around.
Mr Punch and
as
Mr Punch.
Teddy's hungry
said
isn't
enormous
"Hiawatha," said Mr Merlin, or next week, or next month." it! locking at the Small-Sized Wooden Indian who was sit. ting across the table from him. “Are you sure it your birthday today?"
"Nope," grunted Hiawatha. Just then, the door to the Cuckoo Clock opened and Mrs Cuckoo came out to tell every- body that it was four o'clock. "My dear Mrs Cuckoo," said to Mr Punch, "we have a sur-
Rupert and the Secret Path- 34
your
"We don't know whose birth- Scated at the table. were day it is, that's why it's a General Tin, surprise,” Mr Punch's wife the Tin Soldier, and Teddy, Judy said as she came in with the Stunned Bear, and Mr Merlin, a bowl of whipped cream the Magnificent Magician, and put on top of anybody's slice prise party waiting for you.
the Small-Sized of bhthday cake in case any Does it happen to be Wooden Indian and Mary- body wanted to have it, birthday today?"
xe, the Rag Doll, and Miss "I hope whoever's surprise party it is gets here soon," They all sat with their nap- said Teddy, the Stuffed Bear. kins fucked under their chins He looked hungrily at the "MS birthday was and their knives and forks in beautiful birthday cake.
month," said Mrs Cuckoo. And their hands and their plates in
she shut her door and went in- front of them.
side the Clock.
Girina Dol.
They were all ready to eat the birthday cake.
Nobody ate
Only none of them ate it.
Oh dear" Harid said again.
se birthday is it?"
Last month
last
"I never heard of such a thing!" cried Hanid. "How can you give a birthday party Then Knarf and Teddy, the when you don't know whose Stuffed Bear, and General Tin birthday it is?"
all went to the window and shouted out:
Here, Mary-Jane, the Rag Doll, said in her sweet raggedy voice:
"Does anybody have a birth- day today?"
Bingo seires the paper excitedly and spreads it out.. "It has scribbles on it very like those that were on my piece," says Rupert.
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"And
the brainy pup suddenly. there's a cross marked here Let's see, that would be the middle of Pendragon Wood."
Why!" exclaims Rupert, “that'a the place that Beryl was pointing at The hush-hush building nobody is allowed to hear about!" ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Why ever did the teacher think they were so important?""They look very much like a map of the roads and paths round bare, saya
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