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Christmas has a way of jumping out at the world as if it had crouched / down low behind Thanksgiving Day and hidden. Then, suddenly, out / it pops crying: "Ah, ha! You didn't know I was so near, did you? " / Whereupon everybody gets quite flustered and is set rushing and / hurrying upon shopping and working to make up for being caught unawares.
Christmas played this favorite trick upon the Cortlandt family this / year. He popped out upon Mrs. Cortlandt one morning at breakfast in the / sunny, rosy breakfast room which had so entranced Beth on the night of / her arrival.