The doll's birthday is a great event, and on the previous day each class in turn bakes tiny loaves, or cakes or pastry for the party.

A birthday, too, was an excuse for a dinner; a birthday, that is, of any person long dead and buried, as well as of a living person, being a member of the family, or otherwise esteemed.

Here's hoping your birthday is brutally reet.

The London season was approaching its close; for the royal birthday was, at the period of our history, generally the signal of preparation for country quarters.

CHAPTER XII IVRA'S BIRTHDAY "To-morrow is the shortest day in the year," Ivra told Eric one night after they were in bed.

His birthday was February 10.

To no one that day, except to Wilbur Cowan himself, had it occurred that Merle Whipple's birthday would also be the birthday of his twin brother.

It is no wonder "the historian," whose birthday was September the 2nd, found as he was on the west side of the meridian with the mystery that the folks at home in the states had celebrated it for him two days agoone day he had lost, and the other they had gained.

It is not, however, true that he was born on 3rd September, as many affirm, for his birthday was 25th April, 1599.