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102 JOIINNY BLOSSOM
At home that day they had been baking the
Christmas cakes. Johnny Blossom had eaten
not a little of the raw dough, and his sister Asta
and he had made some cakes of remarkable
shapes (though rather dingy from much
handling), which they were allowed to bake.
It was while they were busy with the cakes
that it had dawned upon Johnny Blossom that
there was no time to spare, and that he must
decide upon his presents at once.
The present for Father was an easy matter.
The ruler that Johnny had just finished in the
sloyd class was exactly the thing; and Mother
should have the knife box. Carve their names
nicely on the things, and those two presents
would be ready.
Then he would make — h’m — seven baskets
of pretty colored paper and fill them with
peppermint drops. Everybody liked
peppermint drops.
This left only Uncle Isaac and Jeremias and
Tellef, and there would be about twenty cents
to spend on their presents. Oh, yes! He could
manage very well.
Suddenly he had a brilliant idea. That
beautiful frame that he had carved in the
autumn, he would give that to Uncle Isaac, with
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