they would want to play when they know nobody wants 'em."

"Then I'll be on your side, Oliver," said. Helen Graham, who intended
to be in that snowball fight whether any one wanted her or not.

It was snowing steadily by this time and all the children in Miss
Davis' rooms were excited about the fight. Recess was over before they
had chosen generals and sides, but Miss Davis, who was such a dear
teacher it was no wonder her pupils loved her, said that she would
allow them an extra ten minutes to make their plans.

"Then you must work ever so hard to cover the lost time," she told
them, slipping out of the room to speak to Miss May, while the boys and
girls began to chatter again.

Sunny Boy was made a general for one side, and Oliver took the other.
Perry Phelps and Jimmie Butterworth were on Sunny Boy's side and Jessie
Smiley and Dorothy Peters. There were three other boys and two more
girls in his army, too. Helen Graham, of course, was on Oliver's side,
and Carleton Marsh and Leslie Bradin. Lottie Carr and her sister were
on his side, also, and four other boys. That gave each side ten, you
see.

"I've been speaking to Miss May," announced Miss Davis, coming back to
her room when the ten minutes was up. "She thinks, instead of having
you children go home at noon and come back for your snowball fight,
that it will be better if you have lunch here and then go out to play
in the snow. Miss May will telephone every child's mother and ask
permission to have you stay here, and she is going to promise that you
will all be home by four o'clock. And now I want you to have the best