Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 347
SEWARD (AGE 13).{Silver Badge.) I AM a Christmas tree. Once I hada dream that had a very bad beginningand a very nice ending. I dreamed that I had been choppeddown, and was trimmed ready for Christmas day to come. I was feeling very fine, thinking of all the children thatI would make happy, when… … could nt see even a speckof dirt on any of them.And they had so manystudy-books. Each onehad about fifteen. Theylooked at me wonderingly.Then one of them askedthe teacher what I was. That, said the teacher,is an object called aChristmas tree. Wickedparents purchase them fortheir children. Then…
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