He was just about to run for Aunt Susan, when Bud suddenly stopped crying, and turned toward him with a look of terror.
"Aw, I done knock a tooth out!" he exclaimed, and began crying harder than before, feeling that he had been damaged beyond repair.
John Jay laughed when he found that nothing worse had happened than the loss of a little white front tooth, and soon dried Bud's tears by promising that a new one would certainly fill the hole in time.
"Keep yoah mouf shet much as you can when Mammy comes home to-night," he cautioned; "for I sut'n'ly don't want to ketch a lickin' on my buthday.
It's mighty lucky the pan didn't get a hole knocked in her." Mammy came home just before dark.

The children were on the fence waiting for her.

John Jay felt sure that if Miss Hallie knew that it was his birthday she would send him something.

He wondered if Mammy had told her.

The basket on the old woman's head was always interesting to these children, for it never came back from Rosehaven empty.