Indeed, it was the very next day.
And the very next day was Christmas, too.
Think of having a birthday and Christmas on the same day!
How would you like that?
Jack was going to have a birthday party.
Or was it a Christmas party?
Jack couldn't tell which it was.
All the children were coming,—Boy Blue, and Mary, and Alice, and Tommy Tucker, and ever so many more.
There was a secret about the party.
Jack's mother had told him, but he would not tell.