Easter Sunday was a cloudy but festive day in Memorial Park for about 100 kids from local orphanages. An Easter egg hunt started at 10 a.m. when a fire engine blasted its horn. Boys and girls, ranging in a 【小题1】 from 2 to 6, dashed throughout the park, yelling and screaming, walking and running, and quite often, falling down. One little girl. Amanda, found her first egg less than a minute after the horn blew. I 【小题2】 of putting it into her basket and continuing to search for more, she sat down. Then she spent the next 10 minutes examining it, unwrapping it and e 【小题3】 it piece by piece. When she finished, she put the wrapper into her basket, wiped her hands on her white dress. and went to hunt for another egg.

M 【小题4】  Jeff, one of the older boys, filled his basket to overflowing. He asked one of the firemen to hold it for him, and then took off running for more candy eggs. As soon as he found some, he put them into the basket of the child c 【小题5】  to him. Two little toddlers both saw a candy egg at the same time, and they both bent over to pick it up. They banged heads, and both of them sat down bawling. A couple of volunteer nurses picked them up and told them that e 【小题6】 was going to be all right.

The festivities ended about 3 p.m. , when the orphans climbed into the buses for the return trip home. Most of t 【小题7】 said they had a fun time. Six-year-old Sara asked, “Can we do this every Sunday?” And more than one boy asked, “Can I drive the fire engine next time?”