FORESTALLED.
" Christmas Eve," murmured the youngwife, a? she gazccTreflectivolv into the glowing embers, seeing there the enticing pictures which often she had conjured up in her fancy—pictures which, alas ! had never been realised. % " Christmas Eve," she murmured again, "and not even enough to buy baby a little Christmas present." Her eves traversed slowly round the room until with a guilty start they alighted upon an object vesting on the mantelpiece. It was the babyV money-box. "If only I dnred!" she whispered. "But what would Edward say?" For a moment she debated, then took the box in her hands. " Edward need never know," she said, and, with a guilty face, she broke open the baby's box. A cry of dismay escaped her. Edward had been there first, and had filled it with nails to make it rattle!
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Otago Witness, Issue 3327, 19 December 1917, Page 62
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