The Gingerbread Boy and Joyful Jingle Play Stories

Polly and Peter had to stay home one Saturday when mother was ill. Mother said, "Polly, take my place in the kitchen, please, and, Peter, you must amuse the baby."Polly went down stairs, put on her little all-over apron, and sat down on the kitchen stool. She sighed: "Oh dear, something always happens on a sunny Saturday-when I want to play! We have to miss the school picnic to-day; but I will smile, and smile, and something nice will surely happen."