Walker hung up cedar and holly and mistletoe till the big house looked like a bower.

Maria bustled about, airing rooms and bringing out stores of linen and silver.
The Colonel himself filled the great punch-bowl that his grandfather had brought from Virginia.
"I'm glad we're goin' to stay heah to-night," said Lloyd, as she hung up her stocking Christmas Eve.

"It will be so much easiah fo' Santa Claus to get down these big chimneys." In the morning when she found four tiny stockings hanging beside her own, overflowing with candy for Fritz, her happiness was complete.
That night there was a tree in the drawing-room that reached to the frescoed ceiling.

When May Lilly came in to admire it and get her share from its loaded branches, Lloyd came skipping up to her.

"Oh, I'm goin' to live heah all wintah," she cried.