Sunny Boy in School and Out (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1921 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIII "A WHITE THANKSGIVING BLESS your heart, dearie " said Mrs. Horton when she saw the heap of gift-offerings Sunny Boy had arranged on the cellar floor, "yu are going to take a whole dinner, aren't you?" "But I haven't any dessert," complained Sunny Boy. "If there's any little boys and girls in the poor family, they'll feel real bad if their mother says nobody sent 'em any dessert." "That would be too bad, wouldn't it?" agreed Mrs. Horton. "Do you think two tumblers of my nice raspberry jelly would do, dear? Most little boys and girls like jelly."' "Yes, I think that would do," conceded 156 Sunny Boy. "They could eat it on bread and butter. Thank you very much, Mother." The express wagon was pretty well filled, and after he had it all ready Oliver Dunlap came to ask Sunny Boy to come out and play till supper time. Oliver, when he saw the wagon, said that Miss May didn't want the things brought to the school till the day after the next. "When we.recite, you know," Oliver explained. Sunny Boy looked disappointed. With his usual activity, he had plunged into his gift-planning, forgetting that Miss May had said they were not to bring their offerings till the day before Thanksgiving. "Never mind," Mrs. Horton comforted him. "Everything willkeep, precious, and it will not be necessary to unpack the wagon. Day after to-morrow will be here before you know it." Sure enough it was. Sunny Boy could hardly bother with breakfast, so eager was he to take his express wagon and its load to school. Mother promised to come at eleven o'clock when the exercises were to be given, and altogether the day promised to be an exciting one. The hall of Miss May's school looked like a market when Sunny Boy reached there. The long table had been set up the night before, and al...