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colors as we crunched on the M & M's with real peanuts scattered among them. . . the adventures enclosed between the hard covers of this year's new children's classic. . . the Christmas cards with ten holes, each filled with a shiny American dime! Heaven could never be more exciting or more rich than the last few days before Christmas.

And then, one more day to go! Oh, how slowly the clock crept through the morning hours as Mom bustled to get every last—minute detail completed. The aroma of freshly baked raisin bread, plum pudding and those glorious oatmeal cookies saturated the kitchen. We checked the clock that was perched over the radio every ten or fifteen minutes to See if it was nearly "that time." By mid- aftemoon we would see Uncle Willie