Mas Every Day

Elle a passé un magnifique Noël toute la journée. Elle a mangé tellement de bonbons qu'elle n'en voulait

The little girl was a good deal excited already, preparing for the old fashioned once-a-year Christmas that was coming the next day and perhaps the Fairy promise did make such an impression on her as it would have made at some other time. She just resolved to keep it to herself and surprise everybody with it as it kept coming true and then it slipped out of her mind altogether.

She had a splendid Christmas. She went to bed early so as to let Santa Claus have a chance at the stockings, and in the morning she was up the first of anybody and went and felt them and found hers all lumpy with packages of candy, and oranges and grapes, and pocket-books and rubber balls and all kinds of small presents, and her big brother with nothing but the tongs in them and her young lady sisters with a new silk umbrella, and her papa's and mamma's with potatoes and pieces of coal wrapped up in tissue-paper just as they always had every Christmas. Then she waited around till the rest of the family were up, and she was the first to burst into the library, when the doors were opened, and look at the large presents laid out on the library-table books and portfolios and boxes of stationery and breast pins and dolls and little stoves and dozens of handkerchiefs, and ink-stands and skates and snow-shovels and photograph frames and little easels and boxes of water-colors and Turkish paste and nougat and candied cherries and dolls houses and waterproofs and the big Christmas-tree lighted and standing in a waste-basket in the middle.