Presently Bud edged up closer, and put a sympathetic arm around his brother.

A moment after, he began to cry.
"What you snufflin' for ?" asked John Jay savagely.

"'Tain't yo' buthday." "But I'm afraid you ain't goin' to have any eithah," sobbed the little fellow, strangely wrought upon by this long silent waiting in the darkness.
"Aw, you go 'long to bed," said John Jay, with a careless, grown-up air.
"If anything comes I'll wake you up.

No use for two of us to be settin' heah." Bud was sleepy, and crept away obediently; but the day was spoiled, and he went to bed sore with his brother's disappointment.
John Jay sat down again to keep his lonely tryst.

He looked up at the faithless stars.