THE BIRTHDAY TWINS
Janie was seven years old, and she had a beautiful birthday cake; but she couldn't have a party because she had only just come to live at Lilac Cottage, and'she' didn't know any little boys or girls to invite. Her Daddy and Mummy were away from home, and the only other house in the lane, -Primrose Cottage, was waiting for some new people to come and live in it. But Janie didn't mind. She put on her party frock and set her dolls around the table. "Because you never know who may turn up," she said to Nurse. Now just when tea was ready, thero was a rat-tat-tat at the front door, and when Janie opened it, she found a little boy in a red jersey standing on the step, : "Oh, please," he said, "my name's David. Can you tell me where my house is? We're coming to live at Primrose Cottage. Daddy put me into the train and then he went to buy a paper, and the train started without him, so I'm here all by myself." Well, he was so exactly the kind of little boy that Janie "wanted to ask to her party that she pulled him inside. "It's my birthday," she said, "and I've got a cake, and now I can have » party if you?ll come to tea." "Why, it's my birthday, tool" David cried. "And I can't have a party because there's no chairs in the house to sit on till the furniture -ran comes! I'm seven, and I got this," and he pulled'a shiny new watch out cf his pocket. "Well, you're birthday twins," Nurse said, "and David has just come to the right house. So we'll keep him here till his daddy and the furniture arrive." It was a fine party, and the Birthday Twins made a terrible hole in the big cake. They were just finishing with strawberries and cream when David's daddy came rat-tat-tatting at the front door to ask if anybody-had Been a little boy in a red jersey, who had been whirled away to his new home all by., himself. The Birthday Twins called to him to come upstairs, and when he found that Janie had given David a birthday party he said, "Then we'll give Janie one next week." j The second party was quite as good as the first, and the cake had fourteen candles on it. "It's for both of us," David aaid, "and twice seven are j fourteen! " "SWEET GLADNESS" (10). Northland.
THE BIRTHDAY TWINS
Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 111, 13 May 1933, Page 20
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