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This one's about a poor family who find a little Christmas magic.

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The Glass Snowman by Sheila Hellywell.

It was Christmas Eve and most people were busy doing their last minute shopping

and stocking up on food for the holidays.

This was not the case in the Reed Hairs hold. Mrs Reed looked at the sad excuse for a

Christmas tree that stood near the window. This had been a bad year for the family,

as she had lost her job and her husband had been sent overseas for Christmas and in New Year.

Her young son and daughter were upset that their dad wasn't going to be there on Christmas morning

to watch them unwrap their presents. Not that they would have many presents to unwrap,

as money was very short. They only had the Christmas tree because their neighbour hadn't

strapped it onto his car properly when he bought it and half the branches were broken or missing

because it fell off. He had thrown it out and bought a new one.

Mrs Reed and the children had decorated the tree with old bobbels

the children had made a couple of years earlier. The Christmas lights kept flickering on and off

and she was sure they wouldn't last until the New Year.

The big sigh Mrs Reed decided to do some baking so at least the children would come home to

the smell of home cooking. Bounce of the dog lay on the floor eyeing the Christmas tree with

interest. He could smell the popcorn that the children had threaded and hung on the tree the

night before and he just loved popcorn. He wandered over to the tree and sniffed the popcorn.

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