And this with some string was soon made into some very possible candles.

The children were intensely interested, and even the mail-driver wondered at the young man's cleverness.

They had never seen anything like this before.
The tree and its trimmings had always been bought ready for their use.
Now they learned, which their parents should have known long ago, that there is greater joy in the making of a plaything than in the possession of it.
The question of candy seemed to bother them all.

Their last hopes went when there was not a box of candy in the postman's bag.

What should they do for candy and nuts and oranges and-- "Can you make candy ?" asked the girl of Dorian as if she was aware she was asking the miraculous.
"Now children," warned the happy mother.