PARTISAN REVIEW
his prayer and had made the box a present for the little girl and
not for a boy. He wanted to open the box and see what was
in
it
but that would spoil the fancy wrapping-paper. He stopped in front
of the door of the brownstone house because he suddenly remembered
that his prayer had been answered only after a taxi had bumped
into another taxi, and a big fight had started and he had started to
cry like a big baby and a sissy.
It
might be dangerous to pray for
presents but anyway he was sure now that there was a God. He
rang the door bell and began to think of how proud he would be
when he gave Martha her present and he told Isabel all the things
that had happened when he had been allowed to go by himself to
the Borough of Brooklyn where he had been born so long ago.
