So Brother and Sister went down to the "big" theatre with Ralph
the next Saturday afternoon, and then they had to stay in their
yard all day Sunday and all day Monday, and after that they might
again go where they pleased.
"Let's go see if Norman Crane's aunt sent him a birthday present,"
suggested Sister the first morning they were free to leave the
yard.
Norman Crane was a little friend who lived several blocks away,
and whose aunt in New York City sent him wonderful presents at
Christmas time and on his birthday. He had had a party a few days
before, and of course Brother and Sister could not go--all because
they would go to those unlucky movies!
Brother was willing to stop at Norman's house, but when they
reached there they found Norman had gone to the city with his
mother for a day's shopping.
"I smell tar," declared Brother, as they came down the steps and
turned into the street where Miss Putnam lived in the haunted
house--only it wasn't called that any longer. "Oh, look, Betty,
they're mending something."
There was a little group of children about a big pot of boiling
tar and workmen were mending the roofs of three or four houses
that were built exactly alike and were owned by the same man.
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