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Christmas, and besides who could divide a clock among five children ? Andrew offered to lend me the money, but I didn’t want it that way. '
When I put down the phone I watched the children unenthusiastically tying the shiny ornaments on the tree. Other years it had been so different, and so wonderfully noisy .... Carol, Carol, what was it you gave to this household that set their tongues to merry clattering, that lit their young faces with watm light? How is it that you took so much, in- just taking yourself? There were the usual kitchen, noises, made by Anne, the smell of Christmas greens, of a hot oven, the tinkle of bells. But it wasn't the same; it’s never been the same since you’ve been gone.
So I startled them. ,1 called “Kids!” very loudly so they .jumped; “Anne.”-1 said. She same from lbekrtchen,dusfirigflourfromher” sleeve. They gathered around me quietly, even Joey, who is never quiet. I half noticed he’d been sampling a holly herry, and the rejected half of it was still-on: his chin. ' ■I
told them about the clock, about how we’d kept it for them, but how I thought it would be better tt> make someone happy with -it-this Christmas. When I finished. Benjy said for all of us, “Who wants an old clock 1” I looked at them smiling back at me—real, wide grins—nothing polite and careful, the way it’s been. - ~frWeTH take it to her tomorrow,” I promised them. “On Christmas Day.” ' .
So here it is Carol, the record player you’ve wanted so long. You’ll have many hours to enjoy it with us, and many years. We all had a hand in wrapping it, and the crooked Christmas Seals were stuck on by Joey, who licked them personally. Look at the seals carefully, Carol, and the pictures of the five children so like our children. These are no empty bits of paper, darling, they are the tiny banners of the long, long fight against tuberculosis. I’m glad they po to vou who wage vour own gallhnt fight so that you can come (Jack soon.
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