Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 196
ugh-ingly, Good-by, Miss Santa Claus ! Everybody in the car looked up and smiled, andturned and looked again as she went up the aisle,for a lovelier Christmas picture could not beimagined than the one she made in her long redcoat, her arms full of packages and wreaths of holly. The little fur cap… … THE OLD GENTLEMAN S COAT WAS FUR, AND HIS CAP WAS FUR. seemed to bring with it the sense of all holidayjoy, just as the cardinals first note holds in it thesweetness of a whole spring. Willm edged alongthe seat until he was close beside Libby, and thetwo sat and stared at her with wide-eyed…
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