Just then some of the blue, pinched, half-dressed little children, who lived below, came running up the walk. There were two boys whom the children knew to be a certain Sammie and Luke, and two girls whose names were Lizy and Sally. They were shouting and racing, but they stopped to listen to the conversation. The word "Christmas" loosened their tongues at once. "I'm going to our Sunday-school to a Christmas-tree," said Sammie.
"I can't go to Sunday-school," said Lizy, ready to cry, "I hain't got no clo'es."
Elsie's heart reproached her anew for her covetous, ungrateful thoughts of a few moments before. Her self-reproaches grew stronger still when Millie remarked to the little crowd of listeners, as though proud of the acquaintance of so distinguished an individual, that Elsie Perch was going to have cherry-pie for her Christmas dinner.
"Oh, my!" "Is she?" "Ain't that fine!" cried one and all, with enthusiasm.
"Yes," rejoined Elsie, her heart swelling with pride, "my grandma always has a cherry-pie for Christmas."

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