"I have an idia,"- Mother began.-"perhaps you d like to invite your friends to party here?" A party. For a whole year I had asked mother to let me give a party,and she had always answered,"It will cost too much,"or"Wait until you are 18,"and a dozen other reasons: now she was suggesting a party herself.Well,after that everywhere I went,there was Merry Ann with Sladen Morris behind her, like a big dog.