ut she hugged them to her bosom, and at length she was able to look up
with dim eyes and a smile and say: "My hair grows so fast, Jim!"

And then Della leaped up like a little singed cat and cried, "Oh, oh!"

Jim had not yet seen his beautiful present. She held it out to him
eagerly upon her open palm. The dull precious metal seemed to flash with
a reflection of her bright and ardent spirit.

"Isn't it a dandy, Jim? I hunted all over town to find it. You'll have
to look at the time a hundred times a day now. Give me your watch. I
want to see how it looks on it."

Instead of obeying, Jim tumbled down on the couch and put his hands
under the back of his head and smiled.

"Dell," said he, "let's put our Christmas presents away and keep 'em a
while. They're too nice to use just at present. I sold the watch to get
the money to buy your combs. And now suppose you put the chops on."

The magi, as you know, were wise men--wonderfully wise men--who brought
gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving
Christmas presents. Being wise, their gifts were no doubt wise ones,
possibly bearing the privilege of exchange in case of duplication. And
here I have lamely related to you the uneventful chronicle of two
foolish children in a flat who most unwisely sacrificed for each other
the greatest treasures of their house. But in a last word to the wise of
these days let it be said that of all who give gifts these two were the
wisest. Of all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest.
Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

SECTION IX

NATURE LITERATURE

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Andrews, Jane, _The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children_.

Atkinson, Eleanor S., _Greyfriars Bobby_.

Bertelli, Luigi, _The Prince and His Ants_.

Brown, Dr. John, _Rab and His Friends_.

Bullen, Frank, _The Cruise of the Cachelot_.

Burgess, Thornton W., _Old Mother West Wind Stories_.

Burroughs, John, _Squirrels and Other Fur Bearers_. _Wake Robin._

Chapman, William G., _Green-Timber Trails: Wild Animal Stories
of the Upper Fur Country_.

Ford, Sewell, _Horses Nine_.

Hawkes, Clarence, _Shaggycoat_.

Hudson, W. H., _A Little Boy Lost_.

Jordan, David Starr, _Science Sketches_.

Kellogg, Vernon L., _Insect Stories_. _Nuova, the New Bee._

Kingsley, Charles, _Madame How and Lady Why_.

Kipling, Rudyard, _Just-So Stories_. _The Jungle Book_ (Two
Series).