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"It's always nice when you begin," said Alys.
The three girl cousins were gathered in Natalie's room doing up / Christmas gifts. Rolls of white tissue paper, of crêpe paper figured / in glowing poinsettia and holly; yards and yards of Christmas ribbons, / white, with holly or poinsettia designs, or plain holly red; tufts / of jewelers' cotton clinging to everything it should not touch and / leaving fuzzy white down behind it when it was removed; Christmas seals / of varied designs and Red Cross seals; piles of cards; higher piles / of holly boxes of all sorts and sizes; labels asking aimlessly that / something should not be "opened until Christmas," all these things / covered the room "except the walls and ceiling," as Beth had said. / She had added that it "was nice when we began," showing that she was / getting a little tired of the work, and Alys had retorted that it is / "always nice when you begin."