continued to find a good friend in Capt. Raymond, were among the number.

Grandma Elsie, Zoe, Rosie, Walter and Evelyn Leland arrived in a body
soon after the Woodburn family, and then the exercises began.

The captain offered a short prayer, and made a little address
appropriate to the occasion; teacher and scholars sang a hymn, a
Christmas carol; then the tree was unveiled amid murmurs of admiration
and delight, and the distribution of the gifts began.

Every child received a suit of warm, comfortable clothes, a book, a bag
of candy, a sandwich or two, some cakes and fruit.

The tree was hung with rosy-cheeked apples, oranges, bananas, bunches of
grapes and strings of popcorn. There were bright tinsel ornaments too,
and a goodly array of gaily dressed paper dolls, mostly Gracie's
contribution.

She had given up all her store for the gratification of the poor
children.

"I've had such good times myself, playing with them and dressing them,
that I do believe the poor children, that don't have half the pleasures
I do, will enjoy them too, and I can do very well without," she said to
Lulu on deciding to make the sacrifice.

So she told her father they were not to be used merely as a temporary
ornament for the tree, but to be given away to some of the younger girls
attending the school.