"You'll be warm enough without the paper, dears," Mother Blossom said
positively. "Plenty warm and much more comfortable. Let Bobby and Meg
help you get unwrapped and then hurry and eat lunch before it is cold."
So Bobby and Meg untied the knots in the String and the papers slipped
to the floor. The twins breathed a sigh of relief and became
interested in the creamed potatoes.
"But don't forget to take the papers down to the cellar and put them
back on the pile, neatly," cautioned Mother Blossom.
Bobby and Meg helped Dot and Twaddles take back the papers and then it
was time to put on their coats and sweaters. Twaddles was just
stamping his feet into his rubbers--he always shook the house, Norah
declared, when he put on his rubbers--when the sound of jingling
sleighbells was heard outside.
"There's Sam! There's the sleigh!" shrieked the four little Blossoms,
scattering kisses between Mother Blossom and Aunt Polly and rushing for
the door.
"Good grief, is the house on fire?" Sam demanded as they came running
out of the house. "Where's Philip? I thought you wanted him to go."
CHAPTER XVI
OVER THE CROSS ROAD
Philip could be heard barking madly in the garage and Meg volunteered
to go and let him out. The others were too much absorbed in the horse
and sleigh to offer to release the dog.
"What's the name of the horse?" asked Dot.
"I forgot to inquire," Sam answered. "So you may call him anything you
like.
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