Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 188
indow, and as she gave out 132 THE CHRISTMAS YEAR 133 the letters had a cordial word for every one ofthe neighbors outside—children and hard-workedwomen and feeble old men. They went awaylaughing and surprised, but strangely heartened.When the office was closed, she bethought herself She was very… … THE LITTLE GIFTS HELD OUT FOR SOME TIME AS SHE CARRIED THEM FROM HOUSE TO HOUSE of gifts, and baked some of her famous crullersand carried them to folk so poor that they neverhad any crullers, and to the old paupers in thealmshouse. She astonished each of them, too, with the giftof a dollar. I can…
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