Kitty (taking the three packages). Thank you, Eddie.
Eddie (briskly). I don't usually bring up de mail, Mis' Williams, but this is Christmas Day and mos' everybody is anxious to git all dat's comin' to 'em. I knows I is.
Kitty. Have you had a merry Christmas, Eddie?
Eddie. No'm, not yet. All I got is a yaller and green striped necktie from (insert local name). He's been wearin' it for more'n a year.
Kitty (has opened smaller package). Oh, it's from Rannie Stewart. (Takes off tissue paper, disclosing a small bit of white embroidery tied with a huge pink bow.) Mercy! Another pin-cushion cover. That makes six I have already. Cost about twenty cents, and I sent her a perfectly lovely doily embroidered with scarlet forget-me-nots. I'll never send Rannie Stewart another present as long as I live. (Throws box and wrappings into waste basket.) Pink! And she knows my rooms are in blue and yellow. Eddie!
Eddie. Yas'm.
Kitty. Here's a little Christmas present for you. (Hands it to him.)
Eddie (reads card on it). "Merry Christmas to my Darling Kittens." Is dat for me?
Kitty. Oh, no; not the card, just the embroidery.
Eddie (holding it up). Lawdy, Mis' Williams, what is dis yere? A dust cap?