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It is Jan's birthday. He is eight years old. He is a very happy little / boy.
He has many fine birthday presents.
Father gave him a beautiful little toy boat. It has sails on it and it / can go very fast.
Mother gave him a book. In it is a story of a boy named Peter. Jan will / tell you about it when he reads his book.
Katrina gave Jan a red cap that she knit herself, and Grandmother gave / him a beautiful little green and yellow bird in a cage.
Jan says, "Everybody is so good to me on my birthday."
O, Jan was very happy!
And then in the afternoon, mother asked Hilda and Bram and Karl and / Kassie to come over. She set the table out in the garden.
In the middle of the table was a big pink birthday cake. It had nuts / on the top of it. It was very good. The children all said so. And they / knew, for they ate it all!