[CHAPTER XII]
DON AND THE BEAR
Don did not know very much about parties—especially girls’ parties. On the farm there had never been any parties, except for boys, and those were mostly fishing, or nutting parties. Don never wore any ribbons to those.
This party that Alice gave was quite different. Don was led into the parlor, and he saw many little girls sitting about, all wearing white dresses, with sashes of different colored ribbons.
Some of the sashes were almost as large as the little girls themselves.
On the other side of the room were the boys, and they wore black suits and large white collars.
“Ah ha!” thought Don. “It must be Sunday, the reason they are all dressed up so nicely. And that’s why I have to wear a red ribbon. Yes, it must be Sunday.”
On the farm, you see, Don had seen Bob, and the others, put on different clothes for Sunday, and he thought it was that way now. But it was only Alice’s party.