Christmas with Grandma Elsie by Martha Finley
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"No, it isn't that; you may have another guess; but I don't believe you
could hit the right thing if you should guess fifty or a hundred times." "Then I sha'n't try. I give it up. Don't you, Eva?" "Yes, please tell us, Lu," said Evelyn. Then Lulu, talking fast and eagerly, repeated to them what she had told to Grace, in bed that morning. "Oh how nice!" Evelyn exclaimed. "How I should like to be in your place, Lu!" "I think it's nice, too," Rosie said, "and I'd like mamma or grandpa to do the same by me. But I'd want my pearls too," she added, laughing. "Mamma's rich enough to give me them, and do all she need do for missions and the poor beside." "But so very, very much is needed," remarked Evelyn. "I've read in some of the religious papers, that if every church member would give but a small sum yearly, there would be enough," said Rosie; "and mamma gives hundreds and thousands of dollars; and grandpa gives a great deal too. So I don't see that I ought to do without the set of pearls I've set my heart on. It isn't mamma's place to do other people's duty for them--in the way of giving, any more than in other things." Grandma Elsie and her older daughters were in Violet's boudoir. "I had letters this morning, from your brothers Harold and Herbert, Vi, |
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