He ordered the doll weeks before from the largest store in Onabasha, and the dealer brought on several that he might make a selection.

He chose a large baby doll almost life size, and sent it to the dress-making department to be completely and exquisitely clothed.
Long before the day he was picking kernels to glaze from nuts, drying corn to pop, and planning candies to be made of maple sugar.

When he figured it was time to start the box, he worked carefully, filling spaces with chestnut and hazel burs, and finishing the tops of boxes with gaudy red and yellow leaves he had kept in their original brightness by packing them in sand.

He put in scarlet berries of mountain ash and long twining sprays of yellow and red bitter-sweet berries, for her room.

Then he carefully covered the chest with cloth, packed it in an outside box, and sent it to the Girl by express.