In your little hand so fast?"

Then he looked at them with his honest eyes,

And answered sturdily:

"My stocking is full to the top, kind sirs,

Of the gift that I cannot see."

They would stare and laugh, but he trudged

With his stocking fast in his hand:

"And I wonder why 'tis that the people all

Seem not to understand!"

"Oh, my heart's little flower!" she cried to