"What fun, to be sure; but Clara, what is in the picture?"
"Why, an old woman has brought eggs to the baby in the manger, and an old man has brought a sheep. I suppose they all brought what they had."
"I suppose those who came from Sharon brought roses," said Bertha. And Alice, who is eleven, and goes to the Lincoln School, and therefore knows everything, said, "Yes, and the Damascus people brought Damascus wimbles."
"This is certain," said Polly, "that nobody tried to give a straw, but the straw, if he really gave it, carried a blessing."
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