Christmas After All by Kathryn Lasky

Author:Kathryn Lasky
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2012-05-17T04:00:00+00:00

After school

The hen is still in the kitchen. Jackie fixed up a basket for it. She put the basket in an old birdcage we had because we were scared that Tumbleweed might decide to eat the hen. She seems comfortable. Mama says that we can go with Clem and the O’s to the shantytown and deliver cookies because Delbert Frink has offered to take Gwen there. As long as there is a young man she feels that we’ll be safe. Delbert Frink couldn’t protect us from an attacking guinea hen, to tell you the truth, but as long as we get to go, it’s all right with me.

Oh, I nearly forgot to say that Jackie said she felt something was after that poor dumb guinea hen because its hind end was almost bald. Willie Faye and I looked at each other. The hat project is going nicely. We have all the felt cut out. We could use a few more feathers, however. Better switch to another chicken. That reminds me. The O’s gave me an idea for other Christmas gifts: keepsake boxes made by lacquering pretty cutout pictures to wooden or cardboard boxes. I think I might make one for Willie Faye for Christmas. The only problem is that Willie Faye hardly has any keepsakes. I mean, the only things she brought with her were Tumbleweed and a few clothes, the pumpkin seeds, and that picture.

At school today they posted on the big bulletin board a picture that Willie Faye had drawn. The as­sign­ment was to draw something in the classroom, anything. But Willie Faye was very imaginative. She drew the window, which looks out on the playground. She drew the window so exact — ­every little paint chip — and then through the window she showed a kind of blurry image of children playing. Miss Morse, the art teacher, said it was “very advanced.” So even if you don’t know about toilets, porcelain bathtubs, adjectives, Booth Tarkington, and Charlie Chan there is still stuff you can be advanced in.

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