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June the twelfth was all brightness and lilacs and new leaves, as was required, for June the twelfth was Biddy's fifth birthday. It was fit for the birthday of a little white lady, with white blossoms, white dresses, and all the white children in the block admiring her and the new roller skates and the toy theater, gold and white.
Neil came home early. The half-dozen girls and the four screaming but attentive young gentlemen of Biddy's age were playing hide-and- seek in the back yard, around the cement fish-pond and Biddy's playhouse, of white clapboards thick-covered with vines. All the children, especially Peggy Havock, were fond of Neil, and they danced about him affectionately, crying, "Oh, Mister Capten Kingsblood--oh Mister Capten Kingsblood!"