JO GOT TO TOHOGA PLACE late. The Pollits were scattered all over the house and grounds. For five minutes the sunroom was the scene of straw-colored fireworks. Jo threw down her flowers, chocolates, her, hat, while the others started to pour in around her, through doors and long, open French windows, and exclaimed, “Where’s Sam? I want to give him a big hug! Where’s my baby brother? Where is he, where is he, where is he? Tell him I’m here! Tell him Jo is here! Tell him Jo the Jolly Sailor has brought him his chocs! Where is he?” With a rhinoceros bound, she burst out of the circle, looking for Sam, shouting for Sam. She bounded all over the place. She was a Golden Horde by herself. When she found Sam beside the snakes’ cage, she fell on his neck, “Old boy! Samivel! It’s himself! If I could have got to the train I would have, Sam! What have you been doing to yourself? You lost weight! I cut out your picture in the paper and put it up in the kindergarten! You should have seen their little faces when I told them it was my brother!
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