Stories told by Annie Ludlow Proctor
to Shirley Fay Proctor Brough
Her Granddaughter
Annie Ludlow and George Kidd Proctor Jr
One year when Annie was about 8 years, they all
went to bed as usual on Christmas Eve.
Usually their Mother woke them early to do the chores before breakfast,
but this Christmas morning they gradually woke and discovered it was quite
late. Hurry to put on their clothes,
they went into the kitchen where their Mother was making breakfast. She had gotten up early and done all of the
chores and now told them to go sit at the table. At each place was 1/2 of an orange and a 1/2
of a cup of hardtack candy. Annie said
it was the best Christmas she could remember as a child.
I wonder what our children today would think if on Christmas morning they would only be given a 1/2 orange & 1/2 cup of hard tack candy.
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