So she wrote this letter and pinned it on the toe of the tiny stocking:
"Dear Santa Claus:—Little Sister's stocking is so small I have given her a basket. Please put her presents in it."
Santa Claus must have read the note, for the next morning the basket was full.
There was a basket under each of the other stockings, too.
On each one was a note, saying:—
"Your stockings were not large enough. I had to get a basket for you, too."
SANTA CLAUS.
In Boy Blue's basket there were a horn and a drum, a box of tin soldiers, and three books. Under the basket was a new red sled.
Mary found two dolls and a trunk full of dresses for them, a toy kitchen, and a writing desk in her basket.
Little Sister sat on the floor and began to take the presents out of her basket, one at a time.