Zona Gale

Neighborhood Stories - Large Print Edition Zona Gale

"Well, then, go in with a family," she says; "any of us'll be real glad to have you," she adds, generous. "We would. Come to ours-we're going to have a great big tree for the children. I've been stringing the pop-corn and cutting the paper for it whenever I got an odd minute. The Holcombs, they're going to have one too-and Mis' Uppers and Mis' Merriman and even the Hubbelthwaits and Abigail Arnold, for her little nieces. I never see a year when everybody was going to celebrate so nice. Come on with one of us, why don't you?"