Show mr gandy candy good shopper but forgot own present I 1 IT T WAS simply out of the question tor for mrs gandy to go to say ville valle that morning the day before christmas and a thousand things to do io but mr gandy candy was going of course he could do many errands yet hardly the one she wished most to have done a gift for himself Sa fayville sayville was the nearest shopping place to the tiny village where the gandys candys lived a good fifteen miles over the mountain by a rickety bus which ran once a lilay hay mrs gandy was struck with an idea she hurried to a neighbors house and begged her lier to come home with her just risk ask mr gandy it if i lie he will boy for you a pair of gloves for your husband give a large size hell never guess the neighbor obligingly consented mrs gandy felt well pie pleased ased her bit of a scheme to get her husband to buy his own gift unknowingly I 1 i for himself but she wag a trifle dismayed when at five welock mr gandy came home tired hungry add tumbled an arm armful 1 of packages on the kitchen ta ble you sou got the sage tor for the dress ing Is the celery tho the red rel toy I 1 truck for tommie the blue mittens for sarah the nuts and raisins in and the white wool tor for grandma grandm a sir mr gandy candy nodded and inquired how soon supper would be ready and asked his wife casually the gloves for andrew his wife wanted mr gaudy smiled 1 I clean forgot about them until the bus was ready to start 1 so I 1 just hopped into a place and grabbed tle te first pair I 1 saw good enough for old andrew I 1 thought but they arent 1 much he grinned a little shamefacedly fac edly like a boy mrs gandy gaddy plumped down in a chair bill gandy that serves you just right those gloves are a christmas present from me to you you tou are served with your own sauce and she laughed so hard that bill gandy candy had to join her at his own expense martha 33 thomas 0 western Newspaper union Unton |