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JOHNNY’S CHRISTMAS PRESENTS 77
a pretty card on which he would write: "A
hearty Christmas greeting from an affectionate
boy. Johnny Blossom."
Jeremias should also have a beautiful card,
but that would have to have a frame of paper
pasted round it. And on the card there should
be a text from the Bible, because Jeremias was
so awfully fond of texts. If he could only find
the right one! At first he thought he should
have to ask his mother, but decided that he
would choose one all by himself.
There! he had it! Not that he was altogether
sure of its being a text exactly, but it was so
beautiful! Then Johnny Blossom, with his head
on one side, his little snub nose almost touching
the paper, wrote, with extraordinary slowness,
because the writing was to be so very, very good:
God will never, never forsake thee.
Pshaw! That was always the way! The
more pains you took, the worse was the writing.
Some of the letters were awfully small and
crooked and others were too big; and the whole
thing slanted down hill so that there was scarcely
room for his name underneath in the corner;
and of course his name must be there.
Well, there was nothing to do about it. He
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