Winn Dixie

Chapter Twenty-One

After I got Otis convinced to come, the rest of getting ready for the party was easy and fun . Me and Gloria decided to have the party at night, when it would be cooler.

And the afternoon before, we worked in Gloria's kitchen and made egg-salad sandwiches. We cut them up in triangles and cut off the crusts and put little toothpicks with frilly tops in them. Winn-Dixie sat in the kitchen and looked at us the whole time. He kept on wagging his tail. 143