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The officers of the Navy Bureau of Steam Engineering took a hand, and finally decided that it would be possible to clear the ships for service by Christmas of that year. To accomplish the purposes they had in mind, the Navy Department engaged the services of all available machinery welders and patchers, many of whom were voluntarily offered by the great railroad companies.
Yes, almost, answers MOTHER: only a few more things to be washed, and then I can sit down and rest. GRANDMOTHER asks, Is everything ready for the Christmas dinner tomorrow? Every single thing, MOTHER answers.
Hooper has been enjoying Alice's trousseau so much, you needn't expect she'll let you get through yours in a hurry." "It's going to be my trousseau, not Aunt Ellen's," said Connie with decision. "Let me see. It's now nearly Christmas. Didn't we say the 12th of January?" She looked lightly at Falloden. "Somewhere near it," said Falloden, his smile at last answering hers.
"Dear Grandpapa, and when the masters give a Christmas tree, take a golden walnut and hide it in my green box. Ask the young lady, Olga Ignatyevna, for it, say it's for Vanka." Vanka sighed convulsively, and again stared at the window. He remembered that his grandfather always went to the forest for the Christmas tree, and took his grandson with him. What happy times!
"Oh, goody!" they both cried, hugging each other ecstatically. "And we'll have a frolic in the Provision Room afterwards," finished Polly; "oh! ooh!" And so the weeks flew by one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight! till only the three days remained, and to think the fun that Polly and Ben had had already! "It's better'n a Christmas," they told their mother, "to get ready for it!"
He also said that nothing in his whole career had given him more pleasure than to hear how his Christmas Eve effort down in Devonshire had miscarried after all. And he pointed out how, by the will of God, his own gift to the little boy had saved him! And he was said to have made a brave end; which no doubt ain't as difficult as people imagine.
"Well, daughter," he said, passing his hand caressingly over her curls, "papa has brought you a present; will you have it now, or shall it be kept for Christmas?" "Keep it for Christmas, papa," she answered gayly. "Christmas is almost here, and besides, I don't want to look at anything but you to-night." "Very well, look at me as much as you like," was his laughing rejoinder.
When he went to his wife's people, he found that all had something to add to his Santa Claus pack, for Mary as well as for the little one; and he hugged himself with elation at the thought of what a Christmas there was going to be in the lonely wilderness cabin.
Christmas crackers would have been incompatible with the Chanukah candles which the housekeeper, Mary O'Reilly, forced her master to light, and would have shocked that devout old dame.
The next winter passed as the winter before had done, only I had no Christmas entertainment. My father and mother were in Egypt perhaps he did not think of it. Perhaps he did not feel that he could afford it. Perhaps my aunt and the overseer had severally made representations to which my father thought it best to listen.
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