) Maybe
Bell Brown might get it; her pa bought her lots of things. She had
parlor skates and a parrot, only her ma wouldn't let her skate in
the parlor, it tore up the carpet so, and the parrot bit her finger
like anything.
The little boys kicked their copper-toed boots to keep warm and
quarreled about which one chose the train of cars first, and then
began to quarrel over an army of soldiers.
"I choose them!"
"A-aw! You choosed the ingine and the cars."
"Dung care. I choose everything in this whole window."
"A-aw! That ain't fair!"
In the midst of the wrangle somebody finds out that Johnny Pym has
a piece of red glass, and then they begin fighting for turns looking
through it at the snow and the court-house. But not for long. They
fall to bragging about what they are going to get for Christmas.
Eddie Cameron was pretty sure he 'd get a spy-glass. He asked his
pa, and his pa said "Mebby. He'd see about it." Then, just in time,
they looked up and saw old man Nicholson coming along with his shawl
pinned around him. They ran to the other side of the street because
he stops little boys, and pats them on the head, and asks them if
they have found the Savior. It makes some boys cry when he asks them
that.
The Rowan twins - Alfaretta and Luanna May - are working a pair of
slippers for their pa, one apiece, because it is such slow work.
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