Eleanor H. Porter

Name: When Polly Ann Played Santa Claus
Author: Eleanor H. Porter

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“When Polly Ann Played Santa Claus”, is a work by Eleanor H. Porter. It explores elements such as Polly Ann, doll and candy.

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Eleanor H. Porter, When Polly Ann Played Santa Claus

“ And now, dear Cousin Margaret, can you see a little what that Christmas box has been to us? I can't bear to say, "Thank you"; it seems so commonplace and inadequate. And yet there is n't anything else I can say. And we do thank you, each and every one of us. We thank you both for our own gift, and for all the others, for each one's gift is making all the others happy. Do you see? Oh, I hope you do see and that you do understand that we appreciate all the care and pains you must have taken to select just the present that each of us most longed for.
Lovingly and gratefully yours,
Mary. ”

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Eleanor H. Porter, When Polly Ann Played Santa Claus

“ All their lives the children have longingly gazed at such candy through store windows, and dreamed what it might taste like; but to have it right in their hands—in their mouths! You should have heard their rapturous sighs of content as it disappeared. ”

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Eleanor H. Porter, When Polly Ann Played Santa Claus

“ It was a pity, as matters were, that Polly Ann could not have been a fly on the wall of Mary's sitting-room at that moment, for Mary's Jennie was saying gloomily, "I suppose, mother, we'll have Cousin Margaret's Christmas box as usual."
"I suppose so," her mother answered. Then with a determined cheerfulness came the assertion, "Cousin Margaret is always very kind and thoughtful, you know, Jennie."
There was a pause, broken at last by a mutinous "I don't think so, mother."
"Why, Jennie!"
"Well, I don't. She may be kind, but she isn't—thoughtful." ”

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Eleanor H. Porter, When Polly Ann Played Santa Claus

“ I do every year. Polly Ann, don't stare so! As if Christmas did n't use every one up—what with the shopping and all the planning and care it takes!"
"But I thought Christmas was a—a pleasure," argued Polly Ann feebly; "something to enjoy. Not to—to get sick over."
"Enjoy—yes, though not to be taken lightly, understand," returned the elder woman with dignity. "It is no light thing to select and buy suitable, appropriate gifts. ”

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Eleanor H. Porter, When Polly Ann Played Santa Claus

“ Seems as if at Christmas we might have something—foolish."
"Jennie, Jennie, what are you saying? and when Cousin Margaret is so good to us, too! Besides, she does send us candy always, and—and that's foolish."
"It would be if 't was nice candy, the kind we can't hope ever to buy ourselves. But it is n't. It's the cheap Christmas candy, two pounds for a quarter, the kind we have to buy when we buy any. Mother, it's just that; don't you see? Cousin Margaret thinks that's the only sort of thing that's fit for us! cheap, sensible things, the kind of things we have to buy. ”

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Eleanor H. Porter, When Polly Ann Played Santa Claus

“ By the way, Nellie has captured all those red ribbons, and her entire family of dolls is rejoicing in a Merry Christmas of their own in consequence.
As for the presents themselves—I don't know where to begin or how to say it; but I'll begin with myself, and try to make you understand.
That beautiful Duchesse lace collar! I love it already, and I'm actually vain as a peacock over it. I had made over mother's black silk for myself this fall, and I did so want some nice lace for it! You've no idea how beautiful, really beautiful, the dress looks with that collar. ”

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Eleanor H. Porter, When Polly Ann Played Santa Claus

“ She says they're "all the rage" at school among the girls, and the very latest thing out. Dear child! she does so love pretty things, and of course I can't give them to her. It is the same with Jennie, and she is equally pleased with that dainty lace-edged handkerchief. It is such a nice handkerchief, and Jennie, like her mother, does so love nice things! ”

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Eleanor H. Porter, When Polly Ann Played Santa Claus

“ With unafraid hands she arranged the two sets of presents on the top of the bureau, and planned their disposal. Mentally she reviewed the two families. In Mary's home there were Mary herself; Joe, eighteen; Jennie, sixteen; Carrie, fourteen; Tom, eleven; and Nellie, six; besides Grandma. In John's there were John, his wife, Julia; their son Paul, ten; and daughter Roselle, four; besides John's younger sister Barbara, eighteen, and his mother.
"WELL, WHY NOT?" SHE ASKED HERSELF
It took a little planning to make the presents for six on the one hand do for seven on the other, and vice versa ”

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