"I never felt such a soft orange," said little Ellen Chauncey.
"Come, Ellen! stop laughing, and let's see."
They were two great scarlet satin pincushions, with E. C. and
E. M., very neatly stuck in pins.
"Well, we shan't want pins for a good while, shall we?" said
Ellen. "Who gave us these?"
"I know," said little Ellen Chauncey "Mrs. Bland."
"She was very kind to make one for me," said Ellen. "Now for the next!"
Her next thing was a little bottle of Cologne water.
"I can tell who put that in," said her friend "Aunt Sophia.
I know her little bottles of Cologne water. Do you love
Cologne water? Aunt Sophia's is delicious."
Ellen did like it very much, and was extremely pleased. Ellen Chauncey had also a new pair of scissors, which gave entire satisfaction.
"Now, I wonder what all this toe is stuffed with," said she, "raisins and almonds, I declare! and yours the same, isn't it? Well, don't you think we have got enough sweet things? Isn't this a pretty good Christmas?"
"What are you about, you monkeys?" cried the voice of Aunt Sophia, from the dressing-room door. "Alice, Alice! do look at them. Come right back to bed, both of you. Crazy pates! It is lucky it is Christmas day if it was any other in the year, we should have you both sick in bed; as it is, I suppose you will go scot free."