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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."