Going up the lane I saw a wagon passing with the biggest box I ever had seen, and I ran to the gate to watch where it went.

It stopped at our house and Frank came toward me as I hurried up the road.
"Where are the folks ?" he asked, without paying the least attention to my asking him over and over what was in the box.
"May and Candace are killing every snake in the driftwood behind the barn, Shelley and mother are down in the orchard, and father and the boys are hauling corn." "Go tell the boys to come quickly and keep quiet," he said.

"But don't let any one else know I'm here." That was so exciting I almost fell over my feet running, and all three of them came quite as fast.

I stood back and watched, and I just danced a steady hop from one foot to the other while those men got the big box off the wagon and opened it.

On the side I spelled Piano, so of course it was for Shelley.