Oh, dear, I do miss school dreadfully;" and Jill sighed for the old desk, every blot and notch of which was dear to her.
"There come our things, and pretty nice they look, too," said Jack; and his mother began to dress the tree, hanging up the gay horns, the gilded nuts, red and yellow apples and oranges, and festooning long strings of pop-corn and scarlet cranberries from bough to bough, with the glittering necklaces hung where the light would show their colors best.
"I never saw such a splendid tree before.

I'm glad we could help, though we were ill.

Is it all done now ?" asked Jill, when the last parcel was tied on and everybody stood back to admire the pretty sight.
"One thing more.

Hand me that box, Frank, and be very careful that you fasten this up firmly, Ralph," answered Mrs.Minot, as she took from its wrappings the waxen figure of a little child.

The rosy limbs were very life-like, so was the smiling face under the locks of shining hair.