when they did receive presents. This was on Little Christmas, the "Feast of the Epiphany," or January the sixth. This feast, you know, is held in honor of the day on which the Three Wise Kings brought their gifts to the Infant Jesus in Bethlehem.
The evening before Little Christmas the Californian children placed their shoes outside the door or window, and the Three Wise Kings always left something in them. It was not very much that the Kings left—just some funny little twirled candies with caraway seeds in them and some odd wooden toys. Juanita's doll would not seem pretty to you to-day, Mabel, but she loved it just as dearly as you do your Arabella from Paris, and she was just as horrified at the idea of turning it into a man-of-tar as you were when Joe wanted to throw Arabella into the pond to teach Ponto to swim for her.
