CHAPTER XII

AN EXCUSE FOR A CHRISTMAS TREE Pollyanna’s preparations for the first Christmas of her married life were extremely modest. Even if Jimmy’s salary had been twice as large as it really was, she could not have brought herself to have spent lavishly for non-essentials, when across the sea, where the great war was raging, thousands of children were suffering for the necessities of life. Pollyanna suggested to Jimmy that they two should omit an exchange of gifts, but, to her surprise, he repudiated the suggestion with sc…