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ACT I.
(Curtain rises. Aunt Susan seated near table with knitting in hand.)
Aunt Susan (laying down knitting).—Dear, dear, it’s snowing still. This will certainly be a white Christmas. (Resumes work.) I must hurry and finish this sock for Abner. He’s been such a faithful hired boy, and I don’t know of a thing that would please him better for Christmas than a pair of nice red socks. (Holds them up to view.) (Knits a few moments.) They’re finished now, and I know he’ll be plumb tickled. He did say somethin’ about a baseball an’ bat, but these here socks are better. I must wrap them up in paper. Where’s that piece the meat came in? (Rises and searches, at last finding it.) I don’t believe in this new-fangled nonsense about red ribbon and holly tags for wrapping presents. (Wraps socks in meat paper.)