"This wants a button, Minnie; get the box, and see if there is one like the others there."
Minnie sprang up to get it, and was soon engaged in searching for the button. "What's it for?" she asked.
"Some little girl who has a worse one than this."
"Are there any? I thought this was so very shabby."
"Plenty, I am sorry to think; but if we get this ready for some one, there will be one less needing a frock."
"Why is Agnes helping?" asked Minnie, drawing nearer.
"Because she wants to do something to make Christmas happy to others."
"Will this make any one happy?" asked Minnie again, her puzzled little face gradually assuming a more contented look.
"Should you not think so, if you had a little bare frock just drawn together with a crooked pin, and hardly covering your shivering little shoulders?"
"Oh, yes, indeed," said Minnie, now quite convinced, eyeing her warm though cast-off frock with fresh interest. "Could I do anything to help make it ready?"