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ither run nor hop, With weary months of leisure. "So Peggy Owen Carter comes, With joyous Christmas greeting, A carol gay, she softly hums, Joy's long, if time is fleeting." "What a nice poem," said Peggy, with a sigh of envy. "Yes, isn't it?" said Diana. "I wish I could write poetry like that," said Peggy. "I just wrote one verse. It's in my present to you." "Oh, have you brought me a present?" Diana said, in delight. "Yes, mother and Alice and I have each given you one, and there is this one from Angel Hen-Farrell." "An egg!" Diana cried. "Father said I could have an egg for my supper. I'll have it dropped on toast. I couldn't have any of the Christmas dinner, except the oyster soup." "Oh, you poor darling!" said Peggy. "It was very good soup," said Diana, "and I was so happy to have Peggy Owen Carter and the rest of my presents; and the carols, last night, were so lovely!" "Carols last night?" the children cried. "We didn't hear any." "The Christmas Waits came and sang under my window. I could see them from my bed. The leader carried a torch so the others could see to read their books. He had on a red cloak. And they sang such beautiful carols!" "Oh, why didn't they come out and sing to us?" said Alice. "You are pretty far out of town. I think they only sang to sick people and old people. They went up to the hospital, and they asked father for a list of his patients who were not too sick to be disturbed by the singing." "Well, anyway, I'd rather have been well than to have heard the carols," said Peggy. "You poor dear, I can't get over your being in bed on Christmas Day." But Diana's eyes were shining. "I shouldn't have had Tom's poem if I had been well," she said, "or the Christmas egg. Even if one is sick, Christmas is the happiest time in all the year." CHAPTER XV THE GREAT STORM That was a winter of great storms. They began in November, and the snow piled up higher and higher, so that when one went down to the shops, one walked between walls of snow. The oldest inhabitant remembered nothing like it. "It seems like going up mountains," Peggy said to Alice, one day when they came to a house where the sidewalk had not been shoveled out. It was a wonderful winter for children, for such coasting and tobogganing had never been known. It was not such a good winter for creatures who wore fur and feathers. Lady Janet, who had never known any
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