The Little Mixer

Lillian Nicholson Shearon was the author of: Meek Miss Mattie (1913), Sam Davis, the Hero of Tennessee (1915), A Mute Appeal (1917), The Little Mixer (1922) and The Other Little Mustard Seed (1930). "There was no fault to be found with the present itself; the trouble lay in the method of transportation. This thought was definite enough in Hannah's mind, but she had to rely upon a seven-year-old vocabulary for expression, and grown-ups are notably dull of comprehension. Even mothers don't always understand without being told exactly in so many words. "I didn't say the kimono wasn't nice, Mama, " explained Hannah, "and 'course Cousin Carrie was awful good to send it to me, but-but Santy Claus is going to bring Virginia one to-morrow night, down the chimbley! ""