Well I said why not wait till some xmas when we have got a little more jack say in 7 or 8 yrs. and then get enough pearls to make up for the yrs. we passed up and then give them to the little girl and tell her we started buying them before she was a yr. old and she wouldnât know the differents and in the mean wile we could get her something that if she busted it we wouldnât be out no real jack. So Florrie said âYou donât suppose I am going to leave her get a hold of the necklace now do you or even show it to her?â So I said âThat is a fine way to give a person a xmas present is to buy something and hide it and if that is the system why donât you buy her a couple new undershirts my size and I can wear them and when I have wore them out you can put them away somewheres till she gets old enough to have some sence and then you can hall them out and show them to her and tell her that was what we give her for xmas in 1918.â
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