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After this Aunt Betsy grew very calm She knew Helen was there and could now enjoy the distributing of the gifts, going up herself two or three tiood-for-nothing old wo bottles both went safely to Sylvia and John, while Mrs Deacon Bannister looked radiant when her name was called and she was made the recipient of a jar of butternut pickles, such as only Aunt Betsy Barlow could make

"Miss Helen Lennox A soldier in unifor out loud and clear, the rector holding up the sugar toy before the a so painfully, and trying to hold back the real man in soldier's dress ent quietly up the aisle, receiving the gift with a bow and smile which turned the heads of half the ladies near hi sohter than they were before, while she dropped her eyesAunt Betsy's shoulder

"Captain Ray, froave to her dress a little broader sweep and smoothed the bow she had tried to tie beneath her chin just as Mattie Tubbs had tied it on the ar heart, froain, the titters of the audience alan to suspect the relation sustained to Helen by the handso up the aisle after Helen's heart and stopping to speak to good Aunt Betsy, who pulled his coat skirt as he passed her

The tree by this time was nearly empty Every child had been rean boy, who, separated fro the tree wistfully, while shadows of hope and disappointment passed alternately over his face as one after another the presents were distributed and nothing ca on it for me," he exclaier, and Mark turned toward hi ed into tears

"Poor Billy," Helen said, as she too heard his cootten His teacher is absent and he so faithful at the organ too"