Hildegarde's Harvest

Hildegarde's Harvest
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Richards Laura Elizabeth Howe. Hildegarde's Harvest

CHAPTER I. THE MORNING MAIL

CHAPTER II. THE CHRISTMAS DRAWER

CHAPTER III. AUNT EMILY

CHAPTER IV. GREETINGS

CHAPTER V. AT THE EXCHANGE

CHAPTER VI. MORE GREETINGS

CHAPTER VII. MERRY WEATHER SIGNS

CHAPTER VIII. CHRISTMASING

CHAPTER IX. AN EVENING HOUR

CHAPTER X. DIE EDLE MUSICA

CHAPTER XI. THE BOYS

CHAPTER XII. JIMMY'S POND

CHAPTER XIII. MERRY CHRISTMAS

CHAPTER XIV. BELLEROPHON

CHAPTER XV. AT LAST

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Christmas was coming. Christmas was only three weeks off. Oh, how the time was flying! "How shall I ever get ready?" cried Hildegarde, quickening her pace as she spoke, as if the holiday season were chasing her along the road.

"One is always busy, of course; but it does seem as if I were going to be about five times as busy as I ever was before. Naturally! there are so many more people that I want to make presents for. Last Christmas, there was Mammina, and Col. Ferrers and Hugh, and the box to send to Jack, – dear Jack! – and Auntie, and Mrs. Lankton and the children, and, – well, of course, Cousin Wealthy and Benny, and all the dear people at Bywood, – why, there were a good many, after all, weren't there? But now I have all my Merryweathers in addition, you see. Of course I needn't give anything to the boys, – or to any of them, for that matter, – but I do want to, so very much; if only there were a little more time! I will go up this minute, if Mammina does not want me, and look over my drawer. I really haven't looked at it – thoroughly, that is – for three days! Hilda Grahame, what a goose you are!"

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Running down-stairs, Hildegarde went into the kitchen, and was confronted by the sight of Auntie, perched on top of a tall step-ladder, with the upper part of her portly person buried in the depths of a cupboard.

"Auntie, what are you about?" she cried. "Do you know what a noise you are making? Mamma is asleep, and I don't want her to wake till tea-time, for her head has ached all day."

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