Read "The Secret Christmas Tree" by Maud Van Buren online for free on Textopian. Full text with search, annotations, highlights, and AI-powered reading aids.
_Elsie Singmaster_
In the kitchen of the little house on the mountain-side there was only / one sound, the whirring of a sewing-machine. The kitchen was a pleasant / place. There was a glowing fire in the stove, a brightly striped rag / carpet on the floor, and a red cloth on the table. In three of the four / deeply embrasured windows were potted geraniums. By the fourth stood / the machine which whirred so busily.[4]