“Then she remembered another laid away in the attic, one of the things she didn’t want.
“These two crude gifts were marked in childish hand, ‘For Mother with much love.’
“‘Love is sticking out all over those things,’ said the Fairy. ‘Come down and see how she is getting on with her bottle family.’
“They went below, to find the dolls nearly finished, and a fine ready-made family it was.
“Father, mother, children, and even a weenty teenty pill bottle doll, dressed as a baby in long clothes, was pinned to the mother, the tiny head nestled close to the spot where her heart should be.
“‘They are lovely!’ declared Anna Belle.
“‘They are, indeed, and they can do what many of the finest dolls you buy cannot. They can stand and you can have great fun with them.’
“‘I’m going to make some,’ said Anna Belle. ‘I think they are cute. What is she doing now?’
“‘Why, don’t you see? Some one has given her a branch from a Christmas tree. She is fastening the dolls to it. Now she’s poking the coals, she’s going to pop corn and string it for the tree. That cost one penny. She’s also going to make molasses candy. See it bubbling in that kettle? Molasses is very cheap and it will be the only candy they will have, but they will be wild over it, just because only at Christmas time they have it.