PREPARING FOR CHRISTMAS.
PREPARING FOR CHRISTMAS.
HOW earnest Kate and Constance and Brother Willy look,
Counting up varied treasures, ship, bat and doll and book!
The three are very busy, and very happy too,
Trying to mend up old things to look almost like new.
The book was rather shabby, but Kate with paste and thread
Has made it firm and tidy, and rubbed it clean with bread.
And now, ere she resigns it, she lingers, glancing o’er
The pretty picture pages and well-known lines once more.
Constance has dressed the dolly—you see how nice it looks—
And all its things are fastened with little strings or hooks.