Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 262
but Christmas meanssomething better than hanging playthings on atree. The real meaning of Christmas had come tothe children on this hot summer day, as they stoodat the sick mans door. So they shut themselves i88o.J THE CHILDREN S CLAIM. 241 in with him. Nanny refolded smoothly the oldcoat which… … not open his eyes, for his face was fearfully swollenand covered with unsightly red blotches. His lips,too, were swollen and cracked with fever. HeVol. VII.—17. pail looks as if it had nt had any water in it for aweek.The sick man made an eager gesture toward 242 THE CHILDREN S CLAIM. [January, the…
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