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-"We'll have an honest-to-God traditional Christmas, carols and bellyaches and everything. We'll celebrate, because the war will be over by next year, and the boys will be coming home. and we'll get more butter," Vestal rejoiced.
Their tree was a tall spruce from a northern swamp, but when she came to decorate it she protested that the war was indeed terrible, for in the Five-and-Tens and Tarr's Emporium there were only a few silver balls and twisted sticks of colored glass.