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JOHNNY’S CHRISTMAS PRESENTS 75
After all, should he give Miss Jorgensen a
present or not? Miss Melling there was no
question about. She was always giving him
presents, and she wasn’t the worst person in the
world, even if she was so fussy about boys
wiping their feet. The last time he was at
Kingthorpe she had given him a silver pencil
holder without any reason whatever! It wasn’t
his birthday or anything. Yes, he would
certainly give her something — that was settled.
The hardest to find presents for were Uncle
Isaac and Jeremias. Poor Jeremias was sick
now; he had been in bed for a whole month with
pains in his back and everywhere. Johnny
Blossom had been to his house to see him every
day that he had thought of it, and that was
almost every day. Jeremias lay there alone all
day long, except that Maria Kopp went in
morning and evening to look after him a little. It
was easy enough to get into the little house,
for it was never locked. Any one could lift the
latch and step in; then the thing to do was to
get Jeremias a dipper of water and to fix up the
fire. Jeremias would say, "Thank you kindly,
sir" (he always said that), and then Johnny
Blossom would dash out, fastening the door
again with only the heavy old latch.
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