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Updated: May 31, 2025
Christmas-trees seemed not to be greatly in demand in Versailles, and many were the whispered communings as to what les Anglais proposed doing with the tree after they had bought it. When the transaction was completed and Grand'mere Gomard had exchanged the tree, with a sheet of La Patrie wrapped round its pot, for a franc and our thanks, the interest increased.
It was indeed the silver hen, and following her were twelve little silver chickens. She had stolen a nest in Dame Louisa's barn and nobody had known it until she appeared on Christmas morning with her brood of silver chickens. "Every scholar shall have one of the silver chickens for a Christmas present," said Dame Penny. "And each shall have one of my Christmas-trees," said Dame Louisa.
Little groves of cedars, the exact size and shape of Christmas-trees, grew out of the rocks; the candles were already full-grown, but Schlorge sent the Japanese doll running back to tell Sara that she must not light them, as they would not be ripe till Christmas Eve. Sara had never seen a prettier place, but she was rather worried by a maternal anxiety about the dolls.
Oh, mamma, do let it be the Christmas-tree. It is quite well. We've been to look at it. 'Christmas-trees have got so stale, Val, said Gillian. 'Rot! put in Jasper. 'Oh, please, please, mamma, implored Valetta, 'please let it be the dear old Christmas-tree! You said I should choose because it will be my birthday. 'There is no need to whine, Val; you shall have your tree.
He also collected even more beautiful but less expensive decorations for Christmas-trees, at a wholesale house on Park Row. These he hoped to exchange for furs or feathers or weapons, or for whatever other curious and valuable trophies the Island of Opeki boasted.
There are special services in church, but no Christmas-trees, Christmas presents, or family dinner-parties. This was not always so, and some traces still remain in different parts of the old customs which used to be observed in Belgium.
It is somewhat larger than a nutmeg, and its outer shell is of so bright a colour, that it resembles the gilt nuts which are hung upon the Christmas-trees in Germany. The kernel is almost the same colour as the nutmeg, but it has no net-work: it is dried in the shade. The Chinese and natives of the place chew this nut with betel-leaf and calcined mussel-shells.
She was almost alone too, amongst the village children of that period, in being the possessor of a doll, for no more than five or six years ago one rarely saw such a thing in the village. Christmas-trees have since done something to make up the deficiency.
She had said it quite at random, although she was so vexed in being disturbed in her nap that she wished for a moment that they would. She stood in her front door and looked at her dead Christmas-trees, and that always made her feel crosser, and she had not at any time a pleasant disposition.
"I'm glad she's lost her old silver hen," she muttered to herself. She had always suspected the silver hen of pecking at the roots of the Christmas-trees and so causing them to blast; then, too, the silver hen had used to stand on the fence and crow; for, unlike other hens, she could crow very beautifully, and that had disturbed her.
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