30 CHRISTMAS IN SWITZERLAND.

that the beef and pudding, which the Rabbit footmen had
taken away, had been put back upon it. And, upon the kitchen

dresser, lo and behold! stood Marie’s basket safe and sound.
“Oh, my dear old basket!” cried the child, and ran up
and took hold of it; when, on lifting up the lid, what do
you think she saw? The cloth was there in which the potatoes
had been wrapped; but, instead of potatoes, there was a fat
goose, all trussed ready for roasting, with a stuffing of sage
and onions which it made

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carefully wrapped
up in a cloth, were
two beautiful Led-
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Wii ‘oe 2 “3 cakes), one for each,

    
   
   
 

  
 

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white sugar. A little

parcel lay upon the top

of the cloth, to which was
tied a slip of paper, and on
it was written, “A Christmas-box for Marie.’ She eagerly
opened it, and what do you think was in it? A neat little
work-box with cotton, needles, scissors, and everything that
could make a work-box complete ; and not only this, but a warm -
winter shawl wrapped carefully round the work-box, but
which would be more useful, as the old grandfather wisely
observed, when it was wrapped around Marie’s shoulders on
a cold winter’s day.
Two such happy faces as those of Marie and her grand-