CMAS was ing.

        ttle log    buried in sno drifts    took t ao talls.

        t. Laura and Mary stood on c across ttering sno ttering trees. Sno sparkled in to t Icicles as large at top as Lauras arm. ts.

        Pas breat out in clouds and it froze in    on ache and beard.

        amping ts, and caug , actle drops of melting frost.

        Every il    and smooth as silk.

        t tting to little peaks and toar carved on tallest point.    little    ttle stars, and crest moons, and circles. All around tiny leaves, and flowers, and birds.

        One of ttle boards s edges ars, and t    crest moons and curlicues.

        Around t board iny fl vine.

        i sting very sloty.

        At last    ted togetifully carved back for a smoottle ss middle. tar    top of it. ted t ifully, too. And ttle vine ran around the shelf.

        Pa    for a Cmas present for Ma.    carefully against tood tle che shelf.

        ttle     , and stle gilt ciful, standing on tar at top.

        Ma mas. S-rising bread and ryenlnjun bread, and She cake spoon.

        One m sogetil t in tdoors. Laura and Mary each had a

        pan, and Pa and Ma so pour ttle streams on to the snow.

        t ond    was saved for Cmas Day.

        All t Eliza and Uer and ter and Alid Ella, o spend Cmas.

        tmas t, and t of to te. Aunt Eliza and Uer and t, all covered up, under blas and robes and buffalo skins.

        ts and mufflers and veils and s they looked like big, shapeless bundles.

        tle    and    Jack leaped in circles top. Noo play h!

        As soon as Aunt Eliza er and Alid Ella and Laura and Mary began to run and s. At last Aunt Eliza told to be quiet. t;Ill tell you s do. Lets make pictures.”

        Alice said t go outdoors to do it, and Ma t it oo cold for Laura to play outdoors. But er all, for a little    and mittens and t her go.

        Laura doors in ter and Mary, making pictures. t his:

        Eacump, and t once,    umps into t, deep sno on tried to get up    spoiling t    exactly like four little girls and a boy, arms and legs and all. tures.

        t oo excited to sleep. But t sleep, or Santa Claus    e. So togs by t to bed-Alid Ella and Mary and Laura all in one big bed on the floor.

        Peter rundle bed. Aunt Eliza and Uer o sleep in ttic floor for Pa and Ma. ts    in from Uers sled, so there were enough covers for everybody.

        Pa and Ma and Aunt Eliza and Uer sat by talking. And just as Laura ing off to sleep, ser say:

        "Eliza    Lake City. You kno big dog of mine? “

        Laura    once. So    dogs. Sill as a mouse, and looked at t flickering on teo Uer.

        "ell," Uer said, "early in tarted to to get a pail of er, and Prince o    to t eet and pulled.

        "You kno go, and rong s get aill ore a piece out of .

        "It ," Aunt Eliza said to Ma.

        "Dear me! " Ma said.

        "ore a big piece rig of t," Aunt Eliza said. "I     me.”

        "Prince gro you? " Pa said.

        "Yes," said Aunt Eliza.

        "So tarted on again to; Uer    on. "But Prince jumped into t tention to alking and scolding.    kept oried to get past    in front of     scared her.”

        "I s ; Ma said.

        " o bite me, said Aunt Eliza. "I believe he would have.”

        "I never ; said Ma. " oh did you do?”

        "I turned rigo t Eliza answered.

        "Of course Prince rangers," said Uer. "But o Eliza and t perfectly safe to leave t uand it at all. "After s into t pag around it and groime sarted to open t her and snarled.”

        "; said Ma.

        "ts ," Aunt Eliza said. "I didnt knoo do. t up in t daring to go out. And    er. I couldnt eve any snoo melt. Every time I opeed like ear me to pieces.”

        "; Pa asked.

        "All day, till late in ternoon," Aunt Eliza said. "Peter aken t him.”

        "Along late in ternoon," Uer said, " quiet, and lay do of t o try to slip past    to ter.

        "So sly, but of course    a tracks of a panther.”

        "tracks    Eliza.

        "Yes, Uer said, "racks    I ever saracks.    big oak over ting for some animal to e ter. Undoubtedly he would have dropped down on her.

        "Nigracks, and s e any time getting back to ter. Prince follohen.”

        "I took o t; Aunt Eliza said, "and ayed iill Peter came home.”

        "Did you get ; Pa asked Uer.

        "No," Uer said. "I took my gun and ed all round t I couldnt find racks. o the Big oods.”

        Alid Ella and Mary    o Alice, "My!    you scared?”

        Alice hing.

        "ell, any being ty," Alice whispered.

        t it till Ma said: "C to sleep unless you play for t; So Pa got his fiddle.

        till and ers , and Pas fiddle sang merrily to itself.

        It sang "Money Musk," and "t; "t; and "Arkansas traveler." And Laura    to sleep wly singing:

        "My darling Nelly Gray, taken you a; In t at t. t togs, and someta Claus goer in s, all ran sing to see    red mittens, and t stick of red and-riped peppermint dy, all beautifully notched along each side.

        t first. t looked    tmas presents. But Laura was    of all. Laura had a rag doll.

        Siful doll. Se clotton eyes. A black pencil     and raveled, so t it le red flaogs and little black cloters for sty pink and blue calico.

        Siful t Laura could not say a    kno everyone    ill Aunt Eliza said:

        Did you ever see such big eyes!”

        t jealous because Laura tens, and dy, and a doll, because Laura tlest girl, except Baby Carrie and Aunt Elizas little baby, Dolly Varden. too small for dolls. t even kno Santa Claus. t put tement.

        Laura sat dotens and s s of all. Ste.

        t eas, and tried on ter bit a large pied out of ick of dy, but Alid Ella a Mary and Laura licked to make it last longer.

        "ell, ; Uer said. "Isnt tog    a sc?”

        My, my, have you all been such good children? “

        But t believe t Santa Claus could, really,    a se c it couldnt o t ime, every day, for a whole year.

        "You mustnt tease ter," Aunt Eliza said.

        Ma said, "Laura, arent you going to let t; S, "Little girls must not be so selfish.”

        So Laura let Mary take tiful doll, and te, and tty dress and admired togs and ters, and t Laura    Cte was safe in her arms again.

        Pa and Uer tens, knit in little squares of red and    Eliza hem.

        Aunt Eliza    Ma a large red apple stuck full of cloves.    smelled! And it    spoil, for so many cloves    sound and s.

        Ma gave Aunt Eliza a little needle-book ss of silk for covers and soft o ick ting.

        tiful bracket, and Aunt Eliza said t Uer    carving.

        Santa Claus    given t all. Santa Claus did not give gros    but t    because t been good.

        Pa and Ma     give eacs.

        ts must be laid atle    out er to do t Eliza make t table, .

        For breakfast turn t e, and ead by tove and cter Ma put on t ing to    ttle man over, quickly and carefully, on a    griddle.     smoking    on te.

        Peter ate t a Alid Ella and Mary and Laura ate ttle bits, first t.

        today t t play outdoors, but ttens to admire, and to lick. And t on toget tures in tures of all kinds of animals and birds in Pas big green book. Laura kept Cte in ime.

        tmas dinner. Alice -and Ella aer and Mary and Laura did not say a    table, for t c    t o ask for sed    Eliza kept tes full a all they could hold.

        "Cmas es but once a year," said Aunt Eliza. Dinner    Eliza, Uer and to go.

        "Best ter said, well    home before dark.”

        So as soon as ten dinner, Uer and Pa    to put to t Eliza he cousins.

        togs over togs and t on mittens and coats and atoes into ts to keep t Elizas flatirons ove , ready to put at t in ts and ts and too. So t into tucked t robe hem.

        "Good-by! Good-by! " t, trotting gaily and the sleigh bells ringing.

        In just a little     had been!
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