07 Dec




















was a cupboard for my dishes - Alvin's scroll saw cut a design in each door. One of George's gifts that delighted me as much as it did him was a Tool Chest with real enough tools that "worked". Am sure Mother kept an eye on me for fear I would remodel all the furniture. As we grew older, there was a little Engine with a boiler that held a few tablespoons of water - heated by an alcohol lamp, this created steam. The fly-wheel turned round and round as fly-wheels should and there was a whistle. George says, "trouble with the little engine was, if we blew the whistle, it took so much steam the fly-wheel slowed down to a stop". 21 Many of the gifts we found under our Christmas Tree arrived in those mysterious packages sister Edith brought home from the City. We cannot forget the Dolls. There were "Rosie" - "Violet" and "Pansy", as well as George's "Lily Doll" and "Hans Peter". Poor "Hans Peter" - he was left out under the raspberry bushes one night - it rained and his red underwear faded on his nice tan overalls. "Rosie" - "Violet" - "Lily Doll" and Nancy's fair haired doll that looks like a twin to George's "Lilly", lie in my bureau drawer, awaiting that long promised day when I will endeavor to restore them to some degree of their original charm. I may sew up the tears that fairly weep sawdust - find a wig for "Violet" and make them

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