70 A NICE PLAN.

 Well, dear, yes; for though we are the givers
in one sense, they are in reality his gifts, for he
put it into our hearts to give them."
 I was thinking of a nice plan, nursie dear,"
said Bertha that evening. I am going to put
my little Indian box under the table in my bed-
room, and I am going to make such a lot of nice
things and put them in for next Christmas, and
we will call them Christ's gifts; won't that be a
good plan ?"






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 THE ROOKERY.

 Bertha showed that she was by no means a
little girl who made a promise and then did not
keep it. Before the rooks returned to build their