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diff --git a/17145.txt b/17145.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f89e8b4 --- /dev/null +++ b/17145.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1599 @@ +The Project Gutenberg eBook, Hallowe'en at Merryvale, by Alice Hale +Burnett, Illustrated by Charles F. Lester + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: Hallowe'en at Merryvale + + +Author: Alice Hale Burnett + + + +Release Date: November 23, 2005 [eBook #17145] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HALLOWE'EN AT MERRYVALE*** + + +E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Emmy, and the Project Gutenberg Online +Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net/) + + + +Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this + file which includes the original illustrations. + See 17145-h.htm or 17145-h.zip: + (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/7/1/4/17145/17145-h/17145-h.htm) + or + (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/7/1/4/17145/17145-h.zip) + + + + + +The Merryvale Boys + +HALLOWE'EN AT MERRYVALE + +by + +ALICE HALE BURNETT + +Author of "Circus Day at Merryvale," "Father Brown's Indian Tale," Etc. + +Pictures by Charles F. Lester + + + + + + + +[Illustration: "Keep this until I am gone, then hold it over yonder +candle light," she ordered.] + + + + +The New York Book Co. +201-213 East 12th Street New York +Copyright, 1916, by +American Authors Publishing Co. + + + * * * * * + + +THE MERRYVALE BOYS + +By ALICE HALE BURNETT + +Six real stories for small boys, each complete in itself, telling about +the many interesting doings of "Toad" and "Chuck" Brown, and their +friends, "Fat," "Reddy" and others. + +The books are written so the boy may read and understand them and the +action faithfully portrays boy life in a small town. + + +CIRCUS DAY AT MERRYVALE + +"Toad" and "Reddy," by good fortune, each earn two tickets to the +circus, although they find watering elephants a harder task than it at +first seemed. A jolly party of boys visit the circus. + + +FATHER BROWN'S INDIAN TALE + +Dad's story is followed by an unexpected visitor who at first startles +then interests all of the little party gathered around the fireside. + + +THE PICNIC AT MERRYVALE + +Did you ever go to a picnic in a large farm wagon, filled with boys and +girls? Then did you catch a fine lot of trout and broil them before a +camp-fire? "Toad" and "Reddy" did these very things and had a day long +to be remembered. + + +CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS IN MERRYVALE + +Daddy Williams' Toy Shop is the center of interest to "Toad" and his +friends long before Christmas arrives. They plan a surprise that brings +joy to a poor family. The boys erect snow forts and the two sides have a +battle royal. + + +MERRYVALE BOYS ON THE FARM + +"Toad's" grandmother invites him and "Reddy" to spend a month in the +country. Their experiences at Sunnyside farm, with its horses, cows, +pigs and chickens, are most entertainingly told, and they have the time +of their lives boating, swimming and fishing in the creek. + + +HALLOWE'EN AT MERRYVALE + +For many days the boys had been looking forward to the party to be held +at Toad Brown's house, but the evening finally arrived and a number of +new games were played, although a few things happened which were not on +the program. + + +Illustrations in Color 12mo. Cloth 40c per Vol., Postpaid + +THE NEW YORK BOOK CO., 201 E. 12th St., New York + + + * * * * * + + +CONTENTS + + + CHAPTER PAGE + I. GETTING READY FOR THE PARTY 9 + II. THE FUN BEGINS 15 + III. THE SWINGING APPLES 24 + IV. THE CANDY PULL 29 + V. THE WITCH TELLS FORTUNES 35 + VI. BLOWING OUT THE CANDLES 44 + VII. THE SEARCH FOR THE SILVER COIN 49 + VIII. THE WONDERFUL PIE 53 + + + + +HALLOWE'EN + +AT MERRYVALE + + + + +CHAPTER I + +GETTING READY FOR THE PARTY + + +"What's Hallowe'en mean, Father?" asked Thomas Brown as the family was +seated at breakfast one morning late in October. + +"It means the evening before All Saints Day," answered Father Brown. + +"Do you remember what fun we had last year, Chuck?" remarked Toad, for +Thomas was called "Toad" by his friends, and Charley was known as +"Chuck." + +"I should say I do," he answered. + +The Browns had always lived in the town of Merryvale in a large, white +house, set far back from the street, and not far away was the home of +Toad's best friend Reddy and his brother Frank nick-named "Fat." + +"We had great fun when I was a boy," resumed Father Brown, "for my +birthday anniversary falls on Hallowe'en and your grandmother would +always have me invite the boys in the neighborhood to a party on that +night." + +"Oh, I wish mine weren't two days later or I might have a party too," +sighed Toad. + +"There's no reason, Thomas," said his mother, with a smile, "why you +can't celebrate your birthday on Hallowe'en, if you'd like to." + +"Oh, Mother, that's fine," cried Toad, jumping up from the table and +running around to his mother's place to give her a hearty hug. "You +always make things right," he added. + +"We'd better ask all the fellows in school today," suggested Chuck, "for +Saturday is Hallowe'en." + +Toad lost no time when he reached school that morning in giving his +invitations to the party and all the boys were glad to accept, for they +always had a fine time at Toad's house. + +When Saturday morning arrived, Mother Brown sent Toad off to the barn to +get some large red apples. + +"Be sure they have strong stems," she warned him, "or I shall not be +able to use them." + +The apples had been packed in barrels with plenty of straw to keep them +from freezing, and when Toad reached the barn he pulled out one after +another until he thought he had plenty. Just as he was wondering how +many trips he would have to make to get all the apples to the house, a +face peeped around the doorway. + +"Hello, Reddy," laughed Toad, "come on in and help me with these apples. +I've got to carry them up to the house," he explained, "they're for the +party tonight." + +"Couldn't we eat just one now?" asked Reddy, picking up from the floor +a shining red apple. + +"Hey, not that one," cried Toad, "take one without a stem." + +"Huh," protested Reddy, "what difference does that make? I wasn't going +to eat the stem." + +Toad laughed. + +"Mother wants strong stems on them. I don't know why," he explained. + +"What's a Hallowe'en party like?" inquired Reddy, seating himself on the +top of a potato barrel. + +"Fat says," he continued, "that there's always ghosts." + +"Aw, who's afraid of baby things like ghosts," jeered Toad. + +"Well, I'm not either," protested Reddy. "I knew he was only trying to +scare me." + +After the boys had carried the apples up to the house Mother Brown +looked them over and exclaimed: + +"They're just what I want, such fine strong stems." + + + + +CHAPTER II + +THE FUN BEGINS + + +At about half past seven o'clock that night the boys who had been +invited to the party began to arrive at the Brown's home where they were +met at the door by a figure in white. It had queer rabbit ears, made +from tying up the corners of a pillow slip that had been placed over its +head. The eyes were holes cut in the slip. + +The large hall was lighted by many candles set in hollowed-out pumpkins +which had queer grinning faces cut in them. + +"Wow, but this is spooky," giggled Fat, at which the other boys laughed. + +Now the figure in white, which was really Toad, asked the boys to follow +him as he led them to Father Brown's study. Here they were met by Chuck, +also in white. + +"Good evening, Mr. Ghost," greeted Reddy, bowing low. + +"How do," nodded the ghost and Chuck could scarcely keep from laughing +as he added in a deep voice, "Put on these slips and hurry up," pointing +to a pile of them on the floor. + +"Oh, I know who you are," laughed Fat, "but I won't tell," and he +hastened to scramble into a pillow slip, which he twisted around his +head until he got the slits for the eyes in the right place. + +"My ears are longer than yours are," boasted Herbie, as he danced about. + +"All the better to hear you, my dear," laughed Linn Smith. + +As all were now ready, Chuck led the queer looking party of long-eared +figures into the library where they were met by Father and Mother Brown +dressed in black gowns with tall witches' caps on their heads. There was +a large black pot hanging in the fireplace and Mother Brown began to +stir something in it with a long iron spoon. + +Fat walked directly over to the fireplace and peeped into the pot. + +"If ghosts had noses," he sniffed, "I'd say that smelt awfully good." + +Father Brown now went about, pinning a number on each boy's back. + +"What's that for?" asked Hopie. + +"Well, you all look so much alike," laughed Mr. Brown, "that I can't +tell you apart. And," after a pause, "there's going to be a prize for +this game." + +"That's great," shouted Herbie, "hope I get it." + +Chuck now left the room, returning a moment later with a huge pumpkin +which he placed on a chair in the corner. + +"Who's number one?" he asked, at the same time lifting high into the air +the stem of the pumpkin, which had been cut off close to its base. + +[Illustration: "Keep perfectly still," whispered Chuck as Hopie came +toward them.] + +"I am," announced Hopie Smith from his place before the fire where he +had been helping Mother Brown stir the contents of the great black pot. + +"Well, hurry and come over here, if you're first," called Toad, "and +I'll turn your slip around so you can't see." + +"Here's the stem," said Chuck, placing it in Hopie's outstretched hand. + +Father Brown now took Hopie by the shoulders and slowly turned him +around again and again. + +"I believe you've had enough turns to wonder where you are," he said, +adding, "now see if you can place the stem on the pumpkin." + +Hopie started off, both hands held out before him. + +"You musn't feel anything with your hands," called Herbie, "it isn't +fair." + +"All right," was the answer as he walked straight for the corner where +Fat was sitting, watching the fun. + +"Keep perfectly still," whispered Chuck in Fat's ear, as Hopie drew +near, then as he paused before Fat and placed the stem upon his head the +boys broke into shouts of laughter. + +"Oh, you pumpkin head," gasped Reddy. + +Hopie pulled off his pillow slip and stared in wonder about him, then he +too laughed. + +"I was so sure I had it on the pumpkin!" he exclaimed. + +"Better be careful, Fat," warned Toad, "If mother takes you for a +pumpkin she'll put you in a pie." + +Numbers two, three and four hadn't much better luck for Herbie stuck the +stem on the center table, Chuck on a book stand and Reddy tried very +hard to put it into the pot but Mother Brown held out her hand just in +time to save it from falling in. + +Linn's turn came next. + +"Watch me," he said. "I'm going to do it." + +"Bet you don't," challenged Reddy. + +Then Father Brown gave him a few quick turns and away he started. After +taking two or three steps forward he paused, then, stretching out his +hands he walked slowly toward the fireplace. When he had reached it he +turned about and faced the room. + +"Now, I know where I am," he thought, "I'll walk right over to the +corner by the door." + +"Look," whispered Chuck to Herbie, "he knows where he's going, all +right." + +Each boy held his breath as Linn drew closer and closer to the chair +which held the pumpkin. Then as his knees struck against the edge of it +he stopped and placed the stem on the top of the pumpkin. + +"Good for you, Linn," cried Toad. "I didn't think you could do it." + +"Oh, it was easy," boasted Linn. "The heat of the fire told me where the +fireplace was, then when I turned and faced the other way I knew I only +had to walk to the left to reach this corner." + +"Here's the prize," announced Chuck, stepping up to Linn and handing him +a box. + +"Hurry up and open it," cried Hopie, "we want to see what's in it." And +as the lid came off the box, Linn exclaimed: + +"A baseball, just what I've been wanting," and he tossed it up into the +air. + +"That's as lively as a cricket," commented Herbie, as he caught the ball +and bounced it on the floor. + + + + +CHAPTER III + +THE SWINGING APPLES + + +Mother Brown now whispered something in Fat's ear and with a broad grin +Fat disappeared through the door leading to the kitchen. In another +moment he reappeared carrying two large, well-greased pans in his hands. +At once the boys all crowded about the fireplace trying to help and in +less time than it takes to tell, the taffy that had been boiling in the +large pot was poured into the pans and set away to cool. + +"By jiminy, I hope it tastes as good as it smells," observed Toad. + +"I'm sure it will," replied Mother Brown, with a smile. + +"Stand in line," ordered Chuck, "while I tie your hands behind your +backs." + +"You're not going to spank us, are you?" wailed Fat, making believe to +cry. + +"No, silly," laughed Chuck, adding, "Everyone take off his slip, now. We +need our whole faces to play this game." + +Toad, with the help of Father Brown, then placed a long pole so that the +ends rested on the top of two bookcases and from it hung many bright red +apples, tied on with strings. + +"Now," said Chuck, "the fellow who can take one good bite out of an +apple without using anything to steady it with, gets a prize." + +"Me first," cried Herbie. + +"All right," was the reply, "go ahead." And Herbie started. + +At first it seemed very easy, but whenever he got ready to take a good +bite the apple always slipped away. The boys all laughed as Herbie made +one dive after another. + +"Ah, have a bite," cried Reddy. "I picked that one out for you." + +Herbie then gave the apple a push and stood with his mouth wide open, +awaiting the return swing, but instead of getting a bite, the apple +landed on his nose. + +Fat fairly rolled over with laughter and after a few more attempts +Herbie gave up his place to Linn Smith. Then Father Brown took Herbie's +apple off the string and, tossing it to him, said: + +"Here's the Boobie prize." + +Linn had no better luck than Herbie, although he tried his hardest. The +apple always bobbed about his head, rolling away just as he thought he +had it. + +"You're next," called out Toad, as Fat stepped forward toward the +apples. + +"Good evening," said Fat, bowing low, "I've a very empty feeling, would +you like to step inside?" + +"Ah, hurry up," shouted Reddy, "I want a turn some time tonight." + +"So do I," chimed in Hopie Smith. + +Fat grinned. "Don't be in such a hurry; it never pays," he retorted. + +Again and again he tried but did no better than the rest. Hopie Smith, +who followed, had no success, and then came Reddy's turn. Bending down, +he brought his face up under the lower end of the apple and opening his +mouth very wide and bringing his teeth together with a quick snap he +succeeded in biting a piece out of the apple. + +"Dandy," shouted Toad, "he gets the prize," and as he handed the winner +a box Reddy opened it and exclaimed: + +"Oh, it's a knife, that's great, and I needed one too." + +"That's a beauty," declared Herbie, "You're lucky, Red." + + + + +CHAPTER IV + +THE CANDY PULL + + +"Don't you think the candy's cold by this time?" whispered Fat to Toad. + +"Let's find out," suggested Toad, and the two boys walked over to the +table where the pans had been placed to cool. Very gently placing his +finger tips upon the candy, Fat exclaimed: + +"Oh, it's just right; plenty cool enough to pull." + +"Hey, come on, everybody," shouted Toad, "the candy's ready." + +"I'll get some butter," offered Chuck, running off to the kitchen, +saying as he went: "Wait until it comes; it keeps the candy from +sticking." + +When he returned the boys all greased their fingers well with butter and +set to work pulling the taffy. + +"Let's see which one can make his the lightest," suggested Linn. "I used +to be pretty good at this work when I was young," he laughed. + +"Well, Grandpa, I'll beat you this time," boasted Toad. + +"Won't somebody help me out of this?" wailed Herbie, holding up before +him two very sticky hands. He had been so anxious to commence pulling +his taffy that he had not waited for the butter. + +"You're a sad looking sight," laughed Fat. "Why didn't you wait to see +how I did it," he chuckled. + +"You'd better go and wash it all off," suggested Father, "and make a +fresh start, for there's plenty of taffy." + +Herbie took his advice. + +"Reddy, what was that the teacher said in school the other day about too +much candy being bad for little boys?" inquired Chuck from his corner by +the fireplace, at which Reddy laughed. + +"Come on," he said, "let's see who's taffy's the lightest." + +"Yes, everyone hold out his piece," proposed Linn. + +"Oh, yours is," admitted Toad as he saw Linn's cream-colored taffy. + +"Looks like a lock of Mary Lee's hair," observed Herbie, glancing at +Linn's piece. + +"You're always talking about her," teased Fat. + +"Am not," denied Herbie stoutly, his face turning red. + +"Oh, look at the little dear blush," cried Toad in great glee, just +dodging the sofa pillow aimed at his head by Herbie. + +Hopie, leaning back comfortably against the side of the fireplace, +heaved a sigh of contentment. + +"Got a tummy ache?" asked Reddy. + +"Nope, just enjoying myself," was the answer as he took another bite +from his piece of taffy. + +"What'll we do next?" inquired Chuck, turning to Father Brown. + +"I'm expecting a witch at nine o'clock to tell fortunes," was the reply. +"I hope she doesn't disappoint us." + +"A witch," shrieked Fat in a high, thin voice, making believe to be very +much alarmed. "I hope she won't change me into a snake." + +"Oh, you'd make a better turtle--you're so fond of walking slow," +laughed Linn. + +"She'll turn Herbie into a sleeping Prince, and Mary Lee will be the +Princess who kisses him and wakes him up," said Chuck, teasingly, at +which all the boys roared with laughter. + +As Herbie started off after Chuck a merry chase followed which the +other boys enjoyed, at times holding Chuck until Herbie was almost upon +him and then letting him go, only to catch Herbie and hold him in turn. +Suddenly in the midst of the uproar there came a sharp rap on the door. + +"One--two--three." + +"Hush," whispered Chuck, "it's the witch." + +[Illustration: "Three cheers for Hopie!" shouted all the boys.] + + + + +CHAPTER V + +THE WITCH TELLS FORTUNES + + +"Come in," invited Father and the boys, standing in a group watching the +knob of the door turn slowly. As it opened silently they saw standing on +the threshold a little, old woman, all bent over, a long black cape and +hood covering her from head to foot. She carried a cane with a crook in +it and leaned very heavily upon it as she walked. + +Muttering to herself she crossed the room and took a seat by the fire. +Her coarse, gray hair fell in straggly locks about her face almost +hiding it from view. + +Suddenly the lights went out, leaving the room in darkness, save for the +firelight. + +"Place the pot before me," she ordered, in a high, broken voice, shaking +her stick at Fat. + +"Yes, Ma'am," said Fat, hurrying to obey. + +"She's got Fat scared to death," giggled Toad to Reddy. + +From under her cape she now took a small paper bag and poured the +contents into the pot before her, then standing up she hobbled around it +three times, waving her arms and humming a queer little tune. Soon a +dull red light glowed from within the pot, getting brighter and +brighter. + +"It's magic," whispered Toad to Hopie Smith. + +The old witch now sat down again and took from beneath her cape a small +pad, a long quill pen and a queer little bottle filled with milky white +fluid. + +"If you drink any of that you'll get as small as a flea," said Fat in a +low voice. + +The old witch rapped hard on the floor with her cane. + +"Herbie, come forward," she commanded. + +"Go ahead," giggled Reddy, giving him a little push and Herbie stepped +before the witch. + +She did not notice him at first, being very busy writing upon a slip of +paper with the quill pen which she dipped into a little bottle. +Presently she raised her head and handed him the paper. + +"Bend low thine ear," she said, and Herbie obeyed. + +"Keep this until I am gone," she added, "then hold it over yonder candle +light, for thy fortune is written there." + +Each boy was now called in turn and received a slip of paper. Then the +old witch arose. + +"To those who obey my commands, good luck; to those who disobey, ill +fortune," she cried, shaking her stick in the air, and in another moment +she had quickly hobbled from the room. + +Chuck now turned on the lights and Linn exclaimed: + +"Where on earth did she ever come from?" + +"Why, witches come out of the air," explained Toad. "They travel on a +broomstick." + +"Let's see what she wrote on the papers," proposed Hopie Smith. + +"Yes," agreed Reddy, "she told me to hold it over the candle light," at +which Chuck came forward with a candle that he placed on the center +table, holding his slip of paper over the flame. The other boys eagerly +gathered about to watch. + +Soon the paper got hot and letters began to appear. + +"Look, there's an 'a' and two 'e's,' and--and," cried Chuck, "it's quite +plain now. I can read it." + +"Go on," shouted Reddy, "let's hear it." + +Chuck began: + + "If your head will rule your heart, + From a cent you'll never part; + So tell your heart to rule your head, + And all will mourn you when you're dead." + +"That means if you're stingy no one will care when you're gone," +explained Linn, at which Chuck laughed with the others. + +Herbie now held his over the light, and as the letters appeared, he +read: + + "Don't always be in too great haste, + It often means a dreadful waste; + Await your turn and take with ease, + The piece you want with fingers greased." + +"That's you and the molasses candy," laughed Reddy, adding, "Here's +mine: + + "Your hair may be of brilliant hue, + But this should never bother you; + For when the winter winds blow most, + Your head will be as warm as toast." + +"That's great," cried Reddy as all the boys laughed. + +Fat now held his slip over the flame, and, as the words appeared read +slowly: + + "If you should eat a pound of lemons every other day, + You'd grow as lean as any pole, for so I've heard folks say; + But if, upon the other hand, you keep on eating pie, + You'll grow so big and round and tall, you'll almost reach the sky." + +"You'd better be careful, Fat, and buy a barrel of lemons," suggested +Toad. + +"I'll order a wagon-load," grinned Fat. + +Hopie now held his paper near the candle, and in a moment read: + + "If you're the lad, to find the coin + That's hidden in the flour, + You, the highest will enjoy, + Of health, and wealth and power." + +Toad's turn now came and upon his paper was written: + + "You're very fond of teasing all the girls, + And pulling off the ribbons from their curls; + But mark my words, these tricks you'll surely rue, + For when you're grown, a few they'll play on you." + +"That's a good one for you to remember, Toad," laughed the others. + +Linn now read: + + "Your mouth may be large, as I've oft heard you say, + But your words show a brain that is working; + You'll go to the top of the ladder because, + You do what you do without shirking." + +"The old witch must have liked you, Linn," commented Reddy. "That's the +best yet." + + + + +CHAPTER VI + +BLOWING OUT THE CANDLES + + +"Let's try to blow out the candles next," suggested Toad, to which the +others agreed. + +"Bet I win this," boasted Fat, "I've got a lot of wind." + +"Reddy ought to win," laughed Chuck, "he's always blowing about what he +can do." + +A tray with ten candles was now placed upon the table by Toad and the +boys got in line while Father Brown lighted the candles. Then, with +paper and pencil he stood near at hand to keep the score. + +"Only one puff each, remember, so make it a big one," he laughed. + +Fat and Herbie, from their places in the line, began at once puffing and +blowing. + +"Hey, what are you trying to do," called Linn Smith, "start a cyclone?" + +"No, we're only practising," was the laughing reply. + +"I'll puff, and I'll puff 'till I blow your house in," sang Herbie, +adding, "here's where I win." + +Hopie Smith, first in line, filled out his chest with all the air it +would hold, and stepped forward. + +Puff! + +"How many?" shouted the others. + +"Five," counted Father Brown, "that's a good beginning." + +Reddy then gave Fat a poke with his elbow. + +"Move up," he urged. + +Toad came next and turned around three times for luck and then took a +long breath. Puff! + +"One, two, three, four," called Father. + +"What," cried Toad in surprise, "only four--why, I was sure they would +all go out." + +Linn came next. Standing upon his toes and holding his hands together +high above his head he turned slowly around, then, leaning down he gave +a great blow. + +"Six," counted Father Brown, "that's the best yet." + +"Watch me," cried Chuck, who stood next, and placing his hands upon his +hips he started dancing about before the table. + +"Ha, look at the funny dancer," shouted Hopie. + +Chuck gave a puff and blew out six candles which tied Linn's score. + +Fat, who was now next in line, leaned far over. Placing his hands on the +floor he lifted his right foot and shook it three times, then standing +up he puffed out his cheeks for a mighty blow. + +"Look out, you'll bust," warned Herbie. + +Puff! + +"By jiminy, he did it," cried Toad, "good boy, Fat," as every candle +went out. + +"Reddy may tie him," suggested Father. "Let's see." + +Reddy turned three somersaults for luck and standing before the candles +blew with all his strength, and seven went out. + +"Fat gets the prize and it's just what he likes most," cried Toad. + +"Oh, but I'm glad I came," sighed Fat, as he opened the big box of candy +that Toad had handed him. + +"Now all be good children," he added, "and I'll give you each a piece." + + + + +CHAPTER VII + +THE SEARCH FOR THE SILVER COIN + + +"Shall we try to find the dime in the flour now?" asked Toad of Father +Brown, after the boys had all tried some of Fat's candy and found it +very much to their liking. + +"Fine," agreed Father, "and I'll go to get the pan." When he returned a +few moments later he carried a large tin dish-pan in his hands with an +inch of flour in the bottom of it. + +As Toad thought the floor the best place for this trick, the pan was +placed there. + +"How do you do it?" asked Reddy, standing with his back to the fire. + +"It's very easy," answered Chuck with a grin. "There's a ten cent piece +on the bottom of that pan and you've got to pick it up with your lips +without using your hands to help." + +"I'd have left my hands at home tonight, if I'd known they were to be of +so little use," laughed Herbie. + +"Oh, you'll need them later on," replied Chuck, "see if you don't." + +"Three at a time," called out Father, "in a three minute try to see who +can find the dime. Hopie, you, Toad and Fat try first." + +[Illustration: The boys screamed with laughter as the queer-looking +things bumped about on the table.] + +Down went all three boys on their knees before the pan of flour and down +into the flour went the three faces. Such a puffing and blowing that the +flour rose like a white cloud and settled on the heads of the three who +were pushing each other about in their efforts to find the money. + +"They look like a lot of hungry pigs," laughed Reddy. + +"You're not sick, are you Toad?" asked Herbie, "your face looks so +pale," at which everyone laughed. + +Suddenly Hopie Smith jumped up with the flour falling from his face and +the dime held fast between his lips. + +"Hurrah; three cheers for Hopie," shouted all the boys. + +The pan was now carried out for a supply of fresh flour and a new dime. +The three boys were brushed off and soon were watching the others trying +to find the dime. + +"Say, Reddy, you're an old man," cried Toad, "your hair is turning +gray." + +"Look out there, Linn," warned Fat, "you'll turn into a pancake if you +eat all that flour." + +At this Linn laughed, causing a great cloud of flour to rise from the +pan. + +"Chuck's digging for sil----" but before Hopie could finish Reddy stood +up, his dancing blue eyes shining like two stars. Between his lips he +held the dime. + +"Good for you, Red," shouted Toad, "I knew you'd win it." + + + + +CHAPTER VIII + +THE WONDERFUL PIE + + +Mother Brown now appeared in the doorway. + +"Won't you come into the dining room?" she requested, and the boys lost +no time in accepting the invitation. + +"That means something to eat," whispered Herbie. "Wonder what it'll be." + +As the boys entered the dining room they started with surprise, for +there, hanging over the table, was the huge grinning face of a +jack-o-lantern. + +"Well," exclaimed Fat, "what a sweet face!" which brought a round of +laughter from the others. + +In the center of the table was a large paper pie and seven ribbons came +from under the crust, each of them having a card on the end. A plate of +paper snap-crackers of bright colors and the fancy yellow paper napkin +at each place gave the table a gay look. + +"What a funny pie," laughed Hopie. "What's inside?" + +"Each one find the card with his name on it. Then we'll all pull +together," directed Chuck, "and find out." + +"Here's yours, Fat," called out Linn. + +"You're over here, by me, Reddy," announced Toad. + +"The fun's going to begin in a minute," cried Herbie. "Come on, Hopie, +here's yours." + +"Everyone ready now," cried Toad as each one held on to his own ribbon. +"Now, one, two, three, pull," and, with a tearing of paper out came the +contents of the pie. + +Huge wiggly spiders, toads that hopped about the table, mice that looked +real enough to frighten any girl, long striped paper snakes and giant +grasshoppers were on the ends of those ribbons. + +The boys screamed with laughter as the queer-looking things hopped, +rolled and bumped about on the table. + +"Look at what I've got," shrieked Hopie, holding an ugly looking spider +up to view. + +"If that was real I'll bet you wouldn't be within ten feet of it," said +Fat. + +"I'm going to scare our girl into fits with this mouse," laughed Herbie. +"She'll just take one look at it then hop up on a chair; and won't she +be mad when she finds out it isn't real?" + +"Say, fellows, watch this frog jump," cried Fat, winding up a green and +yellow one made of tin. + +"Bet mine can beat it," boasted Reddy. "Let's race them." + +"Thought yours could hop further than my little Heinie, didn't you?" +teased Fat a minute later after his frog had won. + +"Well, you wait until I get mine oiled up," warned Reddy, "and we'll try +it again." + +When the boys pulled the snappers, the gay paper hats caused great +merriment, Fat having a baby cap with long strings which he tied under +his chin. + +"Ah, here comes the ice cream!" exclaimed Herbie. "Look at the funny +figures it's in," he added, as a large platter, holding many odd little +shapes, was placed before Toad. + +"Youngest first," announced Toad. "What do you choose, Hopie?" + +"I'll take, let's see; guess I'll have a pumpkin," finally decided Hopie +and a yellow ice-cream pumpkin was placed before him. + +"You're next, Reddy," said Chuck. + +"Am not; Herbie's younger than I am," protested Reddy. + +"I'll take the rabbit," laughed Herbie. "I like chocolate and vanilla +best." + +Reddy now chose a pink and white wind mill, Chuck a pony. + +"Don't I wish it was real," he said. + +"Well, the turtle looks like it might taste pretty good," said Fat, and +then it was Linn's turn. + +"It doesn't seem fair for you to be last, Toad, when you ought to have +come after Reddy," remarked Linn. + +"Oh, well, it's my party, so I have to be last," was the answer. + +"Well," agreed Linn, "if that's so I'll have the ship." + +"Oh, good," cried Toad, "that leaves the engine for me and I wanted it +more than anything else." + +"This turtle makes better ice cream than he would soup," grinned Fat as +he took another spoonfull. + +"I'm eating my rabbit's ears first," chirped Herbie. + +"Well, I'm eating the smoke from my engine, first," Toad chimed in. + +"Here's the cake, you'll have to cut it, Toad," Linn informed him, "for +it's bad luck to let any one else cut a birthday cake for you." + +It was covered with white icing and ablaze with candles. + +"Now watch the candles go out," and Toad gave a great puff. "All over," +he declared, laughing, "now I'll cut the cake." + +"There is a piece of silver in it, Thomas," said his mother, "and the +one who gets it will be the lucky one in life, and a thimble for the one +who is going to be a bachelor." + +At this the boys urged Toad to hurry and when the cake had been cut and +passed around each boy looked his piece over carefully. + +"Hurrah, I've got the money," shouted Hopie, holding up a bright dime so +all could see. + +"And I've got the thimble," wailed Chuck. "Now I'll have to sew on all +my own buttons." + +"Hopie's lucky all right; he won the money in the flour, too," observed +Herbie. + +It was now growing late so the boys, much against their will, found +their hats and bade good-night to Father and Mother Brown. + +"We've had a fine time, Toad," said Fat, "hope you have another birthday +next year." + +"I'm very sorry to have to do it," announced Linn, grasping Toad and +turning him over his knee, "but you must have nine spanks and one for +good luck." + +"Why didn't we think of it before?" agreed the others, helping to hold +Toad until each one had his turn. + +"Well, I ought to be good for a year, now," laughed Toad, after he +managed to get away. "Wait 'till it's your turn, Linn, won't I give you +some good ones?" + +"Good-night," responded Linn, "we've had a dandy time." + +"You bet we have," echoed all the others. + +"Good-bye, good-bye," called Chuck and Toad, standing in the doorway as +the boys disappeared in the darkness. + + +THE END + + + * * * * * + + +THE MERRYVALE GIRLS + +By ALICE HALE BURNETT + + +Four delightful books for the smaller girls, each a complete story in +itself, describing in simple language the interesting experiences of +Beth, Mary and Jerry, three little maids of Merryvale. + + +BETH'S GARDEN PARTY + +The three girls take part in a very formal little affair on the lawn of +Beth's home. Each of the guests receives a present in the shape of a +downy white kitten. The drive home in Beth's pony cart furnishes a few +exciting moments, but Patsy bravely comes to the rescue. + + +A DAY AT THE COUNTY FAIR + +The girls are taken to the fair in a motor, but a slight delay occurs on +the way. 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