Elnora set down the basket.
"Girls," she said, "I don't know what this is myself, so all of us are going to be surprised.

Here goes!" She lifted the cover and perfumes from the land of spices rolled up.

In one end of the basket lay ten enormous sugar cakes the tops of which had been liberally dotted with circles cut from stick candy.

The candy had melted in baking and made small transparent wells of waxy sweetness and in the centre of each cake was a fat turtle made from a raisin with cloves for head and feet.

The remainder of the basket was filled with big spiced pears that could be held by their stems while they were eaten.