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It did not open at the first pull, and when, at the second, it came forcibly apart, there was no shower of pink and white candies, as she had expected. Only a bit of folded paper fell out. Smoothing it on the desk, Betty read: "Dear little girl, you have helped all the rest To a happy time with your patient hands.

The fair and a blizzard began simultaneously the first day of December. The one lasted a week, and the other three days. The people conscientiously ploughed through the snow, attended the fair, and bought recklessly. The children made themselves sick with rich candies, and Deacon White lost his temper over a tin trumpet he drew in a grab bag.

But on the morrow morning, when the old woman, awakened by the cold and shaken by her cough, went down stairs oh, wonderful sight! she saw the great chimney full of beautiful playthings, and sacks of magnificent candies, and all sorts of good things; and before all these splendid things the right shoe, that her nephew had given to the little waif, stood by the side of the left shoe, that she herself had put there that very night, and where she meant to put a birch-rod.

I'll write to Abby Morton in Trenton to send me Mrs. Henderson's address, and I'll write her a letter and ask her not to let Ida know she didn't send the cake." Ida went into a confectionery store and invested in what Josie Pye was wont to call "ready-to-wear eatables" fancy cakes, fruit, and candies.

She had conceived at first sight a great aversion for the present writer, which she was at no pains to conceal. But being a woman of a practical spirit, she made no difficulty about accepting my attentions, and encouraged me to buy her children fruits and candies, to carry all her parcels, and even to sleep upon the floor that she might profit by my empty seat.

"A good deal: about as much as could be crammed into it; some handsome neckties, candies and nuts and a gold pencil." "Very nice," commented Lulu, and she and Grace, both talking at once, gave a gleeful account of their discoveries in searching their stockings. They had hardly finished their narrative when a glad shout from the nursery interrupted them.

When the Indians saw that the white people had entered into the banquet with such enthusiasm and zest they went to the settlers' store and bought two or three hundred dollars worth of candies, canned goods of all kinds, crackers, etc., to make their variety larger. They also bought 50 boxes of cigars with which to treat the citizens and soldiers.

So after holding forth at Sandusky, we took our passage in a little steamer which crosses the little bay in the Lake to Jonesville- one of those steamers just like a Noah's Ark. A woman was going about the deck, offering the passengers a basket of candies, lights, cigarettes, and cigars. 'Drowned, drowned, she said, 'in the wreck of the Sirius. They'll never trouble you more.

It was Derry's war-time offering. No other candies were permitted by Margaret's patriotism. Her children ate molasses on their bread, maple sugar on their cereal. Her soldier was in France, and there were other soldiers, not one of whom should suffer because of the wanton waste of food by the people who stayed softly at home. "You tell us a story, Uncle Derry," Teddy pleaded as he ate his taffy.

An' when we came into the cute little house where we live there was the doll that says 'mamma' jest waitin' f' me. An' there was a big box o' candies, an' a doll carriage with real rubber on th' wheels jest like we used to talk about. So you see this must be Perhaps at last, an' I'm so so happy only " Hazel sighed. "Only what?"