be sure! Oh, such lots of things-- candies and nuts, and raisins and
fruits in every stocking; then there was a doll baby for each of the
children. Diddie's was a big china doll, with kid feet and hands, and
dressed in a red frock trimmed with black velvet. Dumps's was a wax
baby with eyes that would open and shut; and it had on a long white
dress, just like a sure-enough baby, and a little yellow sack, all
worked around with white.

Tot was so little, and treated her dollies so badly, that "Old Santa"
had brought her an India-rubber baby, dressed in pink tarlatan, with a
white sash.

Dilsey, Chris, and Riar each had an alabaster baby, dressed in white
Swiss, and they were all just alike, except that they had different
colored sashes on.

And Diddie had a book full of beautiful stories, and Dumps had a slate
and pencil, and Tot had a "Noah's ark," and Mammy and Aunt Milly had
red and yellow head "handkerchiefs," and Mammy had a new pair of
"specs" and a nice warm hood, and Aunt Milly had a delaine dress; and
'way down in the toes of their stockings they each found a five-dollar
gold piece, for Old Santa had seen how patient and good the two dear
old women were to the children, and so he had "thrown in" these gold
pieces.

How the little folks laughed and chatted as they pulled the things out
of their stockings! But pretty soon Mammy made them put them all away,
to get ready for breakfast.

After breakfast the big plantation bell was rung, and the negroes all