. The Birds' Christmas Carol . ou think Carol is a sweetname for a Christmas baby? It came to me just amoment ago in the singing as I was lying here halfasleep and half awake. I think it is a charming name, dear heart, and thatit sounds just like you, and I hope that, being a girl,this baby has some chance of being as lovely as hermother, at which speech from the babys papa, , though she w^as as weak and tired as she couldbe, blushed with happiness. And so Carol came by her name. Of course, it was thought foolish by many people,though Uncle Jack declared laughingly that it was verystra
. The Birds' Christmas Carol . ou think Carol is a sweetname for a Christmas baby? It came to me just amoment ago in the singing as I was lying here halfasleep and half awake. I think it is a charming name, dear heart, and thatit sounds just like you, and I hope that, being a girl,this baby has some chance of being as lovely as hermother, at which speech from the babys papa, , though she w^as as weak and tired as she couldbe, blushed with happiness. And so Carol came by her name. Of course, it was thought foolish by many people,though Uncle Jack declared laughingly that it was verystrange if a whole family of Birds could not be indulgedin a single Carol; and Grandma, who adored the child,thought the name much more appropriate than Lucy,but was glad that people would probably think it shortfor Caroline. Perhaps because she was born in holiday time, Carolwas a very happy baby. Of course, she was too tinyto understand the joy of Christmas-tide, but people saythere is everything in a good beginning, and she may. SHE IS A LITTLE CHRISTMAS CHILD Page I 5. The Birds Christmas Carol. 15 liave breatlied-in unconsciously the fragrance of ever-greens and holiday dinners; while the peals of sleigh-bells and the laughter of happy children may havefallen upon her baby ears and wakened in them a gladsurprise at the merry world she had come to live in. Her cheeks and lips were as red as holly berries;her hair was for all the world the color of a Christmascandle-flame; her eyes were bright as stars; her laughlike a chime of Christmas bells, and her tiny handsforever outstretched in giving. Such a generous little creature you never saw! Aspoonful of bread and milk had always to be taken byMama or nurse before Carol could enjoy her supper;and whatever bit of cake or sweetmeat found its wayinto her pretty fingers, it was straightway broken inhalf and shared with Donald, Paul or Hugh; and, whenthey made believe nibble the morsel with affectedenjoyment, she would clap her hands a
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