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`` Wait , until I run back and tell mother about the dog , and get my books . '' Elnora waited . That morning she walked down the hall and into the auditorium beside one of the very nicest girls in Onabasha , and it was the fourth day . But the surprise came at noon when Ellen insisted upon Elnora lunching at the Brownlee home , and convulsed her parents and family , and overwhelmed Elnora with a greatly magnified , but moderately accurate history of her lunch box . `` Gee ! but it 's a box , daddy ! '' cried the laughing girl .