Taro and Take raced ahead of the others to their own little house in the garden.
At the door they found ever so many clogs. There were sounds of talking inside the house.
"What do you suppose is going to happen now?" Take asked Taro.
"I don't know—but something nice," Taro answered, as he slipped tiff his clogs and sprang up on the porch.
They slid open the door.
"Ohayo!" came a chorus of voices.
The room was full of their aunts and cousins!
Taro and Take were very much surprised, but they remembered their manners. They dropped on their knees and bowed their heads to the floor.
"Where are your Father and Mother, and Grannie and Bot'Chan?" said all the aunts and cousins. "They are late."
"We came back by the boat, and it stopped at ever so many places," said Taro. "That's why we are late."